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18 If you use a piece of wood large enough to kill someone and you kill another person, you are a murderer, and you must die. 19 A member of the dead person’s family[a] can chase you and kill you.

20-21 “You might hit someone with your hand or push someone or throw something at them and kill them. If you did that from hate, you are a murderer, and you must be killed. A member of the dead person’s family can chase you and kill you.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 35:19 member of the dead person’s family Literally, “the blood avenger.” Also in verses 20-21, 24, 26-27.

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