Numbers 35:22

22 "But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intent

Numbers 35:22 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 35:22

But if he thrust him suddenly, without enmity
Push him from a precipice, before he is aware, without any malicious design against his life, but merely through accident:

or have cast upon him anything;
from the top of a house, or from a building he is pulling down, or pushes a bowing wall upon him, not knowing that he is passing by it:

and without lying of wait:
or having contrived to do it, just as he goes along, or in any other similar way.

Numbers 35:22 In-Context

20 Likewise, if anyone in hatred pushes a person or throws [an object] at him with malicious intent and he dies,
21 or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood is to kill the murderer when he finds him.
22 "But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intent
23 or drops a stone without looking that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and wasn't trying to harm him,
24 the assembly is to judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
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