Old Testament - The Law - Accidental Death

• BanguIzai

  30 Oct 11, 00:25

   

  Old Testament > The Law > Accidental Death

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:11

  'You must designate certain cities of refuge to which someone who has killed someone else by accident may flee.'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:16

  'But if the man struck someone with an iron object so that he dies...'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:16

  '...he is a murderer and must be be put to death.'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:19

  'The victim's nearest relative must put the murderer to death.'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:17

  'If he had a stone in his hand that could kill, and he struck someone so that he dies...'

  

   

   

  Numbers 35:17

  '...he is a murderer and must be be put to death.'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:18

  'If he had a wooden object in his hand that could kill, and he struck someone so that he dies...'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:18

  '...he is a murderer and must be be put to death.'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:20

  'If he thrust at him in hatred, or lay in waiting and threw something at him so that he dies...'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:21

  '...or in hostility delivered him a death-blow with his fist...'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:21

  '...he is a murderer and the victim's nearest relative must put him to death.'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:22

  'But if without hostility, he threw something at him unintentionally...'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:23

  '...or without seeing him, dropped a stone on him that could kill him, and he dies...'

  

   

   

  Numbers 35:23-24

  '...as long as he bore him no malice and wished him no harm, the community must protect the killer from the victim's nearest relative by sending him to the city of refuge.'

   

  

   

  Numbers 35:26-27

  'But should the killer leave the bounds of the city, and the victim's nearest relative encounter him outside the city...'

   

  

  Numbers 35:27

  '...the victim's nearest relative may kill him and will not be guilty of murder.'

  

• Rooney_07

  30 Oct 11, 00:45

  haha the figurines are cute, but the message not.

  why bother about ancient stuff, who has no relevance to this day and age.