Numbers 35:16

16 si quis ferro percusserit et mortuus fuerit qui percussus est reus erit homicidii et ipse morietur

Numbers 35:16 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 35:16

And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he
die
As with an hatchet, hammer, sword, knife, &c.

he is a murderer;
the instrument used by him, and with which he smote, shows that he had a bad design, and intended to kill, or he would never have smitten a man with such an instrument:

the murderer shall surely be put to death;
be condemned to death, and be executed, by the order of the civil magistrate, according to the law in ( Genesis 9:6 ) and not be allowed the benefit of a city of refuge.

Numbers 35:16 In-Context

14 tres erunt trans Iordanem et tres in terra Chanaan

15 tam filiis Israhel quam advenis atque peregrinis ut confugiat ad eas qui nolens sanguinem fuderit

16 si quis ferro percusserit et mortuus fuerit qui percussus est reus erit homicidii et ipse morietur

17 si lapidem iecerit et ictus occubuerit similiter punietur

18 si ligno percussus interierit percussoris sanguine vindicabitur