Bilangan 35:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Dan jika ia membunuh orang itu dengan batu di tangan yang mungkin menyebabkan matinya seseorang, sehingga orang itu mati, maka ia seorang pembunuh; pastilah pembunuh itu dibunuh.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan jika ia membunuh orang itu dengan batu di tangan yang mungkin menyebabkan matinya seseorang, sehingga orang itu mati, maka ia seorang pembunuh; pastilah pembunuh itu dibunuh.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Atau jikalau dipalunya akan dia dengan batu yang pada tangannya, yang dari sebabnya orang boleh mati, sehingga matilah orang itu, maka ialah orang pembunuh adanya, tak akan jangan orang pembunuh itu mati dibunuh juga hukumnya.

Contextual Overview

⁹ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: ¹⁰ Speake vnto the chyldren of Israel, and say vnto them: When ye be come ouer Iordane into the lande of Chanaan: ¹¹ Ye shall appoint you cities, to be cities of refuge for you: that he whiche sleeth a person vnwares, may flee thyther. ¹² And these cities shalbe vnto you a refuge from the auenger of blood: that he which killeth, dye not, vntill he stand before the congregation in iudgement. ¹³ And of these cities which ye shal geue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge. ¹⁴ Ye shal geue three on this side Iordane, and three in the land of Chanaan, whiche shalbe cities of refuge. ¹⁵ And these sixe cities shalbe a refuge, both for the chyldren of Israel, and for the straunger, & for hym that dwelleth among you: that all they whiche kyll any person vnwares, may flee thyther. ¹⁶ And if any man smyte another with an instrument of iron that he dye, then is he a murtherer, and the murtherer shall dye for it. ¹⁷ If he smyte hym with throwyng a stone, that a man may dye with, and if he dye, he that smote hym is a murtherer: let the same murtherer be slayne therefore. ¹⁸ Or if he smyte hym with a handweapon of wood that a man may dye with, then if he dye, he is a murtherer: let the same murtherer be slaine therfore.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

throwing a stone: Heb. a stone of the hand, Exodus 21:18

Cross-References

Genesis 30:24
And she called his name Ioseph, saying: the Lorde geue me yet another sonne.

Genesis 35:19
And thus died Rachel, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, whiche is Bethlehem.

Genesis 35:21
And Israel went thence, and pitched his tent beyonde the towre of Eder.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if he smite him with throwing a stone,.... "Or with a stone of the hand" q, which the Jews interpret of a stone so big as to fill a man's hand, and so

wherewith he may die; at whom it is thrown; is sufficient to cause his death, if struck with it; so the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it of a

"stone of fulness of hands, which is sufficient that a man may die with it,''

or be killed by it:

and he die; by the blow he receives from it, either immediately or in a short time after:

he is a murderer, and the murderer shall surely be put to death; as in the above case.

q באבן יד.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The sense is: Inasmuch as to take another man’s life by any means whatsoever is murder, and exposes the murderer to the penalty of retaliation; so, if the deed is done in hostility, it is in truth actual murder, and the murderer shall be slain; but if it be not done in hostility, then the congregation shall interpose to stop the avenger’s hand.

Numbers 35:19

When he meeteth him - Provided, of course, it were without a city of refuge.

Numbers 35:24

The case of the innocent slayer is here contemplated. In a doubtful case there would necessarily have to be a judicial decision as to the guilt or innocence of the person who claimed the right of asylum.

Numbers 35:25

The homicide was safe only within the walls of his city of refuge. He became a virtual exile from his home. The provisions here made serve to mark the gravity of the act of manslaughter, even when not premeditated; and the inconveniences attending on them fell, as is right and fair, upon him who committed the deed.

Unto the death of the high priest - The atoning death of the Saviour cast its shadow before on the statute-book of the Law and on the annals of Jewish history. The high priest, as the head and representative of the whole chosen family of sacerdotal mediators, as exclusively entrusted with some of the chief priestly functions, as alone privileged to make yearly atonement within the holy of holies, and to gain, from the mysterious Urim and Thummim, special revelations of the will of God, was, preeminently, a type of Christ. And thus the death of each successive high priest presignified that death of Christ by which the captives were to be freed, and the remembrance of transgressions made to cease.