Numbers 35:22
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
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Gill's Exposition
But if he thrust him suddenly, without enmity,.... Push him from a precipice, before he is aware, without any malicious design against his life, but merely through accident:
or have cast upon him…
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…
Specimen cases of murder and accidental homicide respectively; cf. Exo 21:13 f.
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