Numbers 35:16 Cross References - ISV

¹⁶ Exceptions to Eligibility“Whoever uses an iron implement to kill someone is to be adjudged a murderer, and that murderer is certainly to be put to death.

⁵ Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I’ll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being. ⁶ “Whoever sheds human blood, by a human his own blood is to be shed; because God made human beings in his own image.

¹² Laws Concerning Personal Injury and Homicide“Whoever strikes a man so that he dies is certainly to be put to death. ¹³ If he didn’t lie in wait, but God let him fall into his reach, then I’ll appoint for you a place to which he may flee. ¹⁴ If a man acts deliberately against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him to die even if he’s at my altar.

¹⁷ “If a man beats a human being to death, he is certainly to be executed,

²² Case Examples for Eligibility“But if he pushed him suddenly without hatred, or if he hurled something in his direction without waiting in ambush, ²³ or if he hit him with a stone carelessly so that he was fatally injured, though he isn’t his enemy and he wasn’t seeking to commit evil against him, ²⁴ then the community is to judge between the inadvertent killer and the blood avenger, following these ordinances.

³⁰ Capital Cases Require Multiple Witnesses“Every murderer of a human being is to be executed only according to testimony given by multiple witnesses. A single witness is not to result in a death sentence. ³¹ You are to receive no ransom for the life of a killer who is guilty of murder; instead, he is to die. ³² You are not to receive payment of a ransom for someone who had fled to a town of refuge but then left to live in his homeland before the death of the high priest. ³³ You are not to pollute the land where you live, because blood defiles the land, and the land cannot atone for blood that has been spilled on it, except through the blood of the one who spilled it.

¹¹ Refuse Cold-Blooded Murderers“However, if a person hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, and attacks him so that he dies, and then he flees to one of those cities, ¹² then the elders of his own city shall send for him, remove him from there, and deliver him to the related avenger for execution. ¹³ Have no pity on him, but totally purge the shedding of innocent blood from Israel so that life may go well with you.”