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Biblia Brzeska

Księga Liczb 35:18

Także ktoby kogo jakimkolwiek drewnem uderzył ażby umarł, mężobójca jest, a taki zabijacz ma umrzeć.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Homicide;   Punishment;   Refuge;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cities of Refuge;   Homicide;   Murder;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Murder;   Punishments;   Refuge, Cities of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Kinsman-Redeemer;   Motives;   Murder;   Punishment;   Easton Bible Dictionary - City;   Murder;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Avenger;   Capital Punishment;   Cities of Refuge;   Crimes and Punishments;   Murder;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Kin;   Numbers, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Refuge, Cities of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Levi;   Refuge;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Assassination;   Hand Weapon;   Homicide;   Murder;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asylum;   Avenger of Blood;   Priestly Code;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Także jeźliby mając w ręku drewno, którem by mógł zabić, uderzył go, i umarłby, mężobójcą jest; śmiercią umrze on mężobójca.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Albo jeśli ktoś uderzy kogoś ręcznym narzędziem drewnianym, którym da się zabić, tak że uderzony umrze, to sprawca jest mordercą - morderca musi umrzeć.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Albo jeśli kogoś uderzył ręcznym, drewnianym narzędziem, od którego można umrzeć, a ugodził tak, że umarł jest mordercą; morderca będzie wydany na śmierć.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Także jeźliby mając w ręku drewno, którem by mógł zabić, uderzył go, i umarłby, mężobójcą jest; śmiercią umrze on mężobójca.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Albo jeśli uderzy go ręcznym przedmiotem drewnianym, którym można zabić, a ten umrze, jest mordercą. Morderca poniesie śmierć.
Biblia Warszawska
Albo jeżeli uderzył kogoś ręcznym narzędziem drewnianym, od którego to uderzenia można umrzeć, i tamten umarł, jest mordercą. Morderca poniesie śmierć.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Or if he smote him with an hand weapon of wood,.... A stick, or staff, or club:

wherewith he may die, and he die; which is sufficient to kill a man, as the same Targum explains it; and a man dies with the blow that is given him by it:

he is a murderer, and the murderer shall surely be put to death; no pardon given him, or the benefit of the city of refuge allowed him.

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.


 
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