15 These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien and for the sojourner among them; that anyone who [a]kills a person (A)unintentionally may flee there.

16 (B)But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 If he struck him down with a stone in the hand, by which he will die, and as a result he died, he is a murderer; the murderer (C)shall surely be put to death.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 35:15 Lit smites