16" 'If a man strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.


In Context

13 These six towns you give will be your cities of refuge.

14 Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge.

15 These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites, aliens and any other people living among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.

16 " 'If a man strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

17 Or if anyone has a stone in his hand that could kill, and he strikes someone so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

18 Or if anyone has a wooden object in his hand that could kill, and he hits someone so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:16And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

35:16If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck : he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

35:16But 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:16And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

35:16But 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:16And if he shall smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he shall die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:16|'But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

35:16And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:16And 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.