Exodus 21:13
as for him who has not laid wait, but God has brought [him] to his hand, I have even set a place for you to where he flees.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
12He who strikes a man so that he has died is certainly put to death;
Cross References
Numbers 35:10“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When you are passing over the Jordan to the land of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 4:41Then Moses separates three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sun-rising,
Deuteronomy 19:2you separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which your God YHWH is giving to you to possess it.
Deuteronomy 19:14You do not remove a border of your neighbor, which they of former times have made, in your inheritance, which you inherit in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you to possess it.
Joshua 20:2“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Give cities of refuge for yourselves, as I have spoken to you by the hand of Moses,
1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that YHWH has given you into my hand today in the cave; and [one] said to slay you, and [my eye] has pity on you, and I say, I do not put forth my hand against my lord, for he [is] the anointed of YHWH.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 21:13-22
12 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death. 13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die. 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death. 16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to… Read the whole commentary →