Bible verse
If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Numbers 35.
12 You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
13 The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
14 Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
15 These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
16 If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
17 Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
18 If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
19 The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
20 Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,
KJV
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
ASV
But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
ERV
But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death.
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