Numbers 35:16
New Revised Standard Version
But anyone who strikes another with an iron object, and death ensues, is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

New American Bible
If someone strikes another with an iron instrument and causes death, that person is a murderer, and the murderer must be put to death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.

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Numbers 35:22-24 But if by chance medley, and without hatred, . . .

Deuteronomy 19:11-13 But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid, . . .

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Numbers 35:30-33 The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man. . . .

Genesis 9:5,6 For I will require the blood of your lives at the hand of every beast, and at the hand of man, at the hand of every man, and of his brother, will I require the life of man. . . .

Exodus 21:12-14 He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death. . . .

Leviticus 24:17 He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.

Context
Six Cities of Refuge
15As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will. 16If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.17If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same manner.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:12
He that striketh a man with a will to kill him, shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:14
If a man kill his neighbour on set purpose, and by lying in wait for him: thou shalt take him away from my altar that he may die.

Leviticus 24:17
He that striketh and killeth a man: dying let him die.

Numbers 35:30
The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.

Deuteronomy 19:11
But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid,

Numbers 35:15
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