Verse 22

But if suddenly, without hostility, someone pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally,

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 21:13 : 13 But if he did not intend to kill, and it was allowed by God to happen, then I will provide a place where he can flee.
  • Num 35:11 : 11 you shall designate cities to serve as cities of refuge where someone who unintentionally kills another may flee.
  • Deut 19:5 : 5 for instance, when a man goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood and his hand swings the axe to cut the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his neighbor, and he dies—that man may flee to one of these cities and live.
  • Josh 20:3 : 3 These cities are to be a place where someone who unintentionally kills another person without malice can flee. They will serve as a refuge from the avenger of blood.
  • Josh 20:5 : 5 If the avenger of blood pursues them, the city must not hand over the one who committed the killing, because they killed their neighbor unintentionally and without prior hostility.