Numbers 35:23
Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
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Gill's Exposition
Or with any stone wherewith a man may die,.... Which is sufficient to kill a man, if thrown at him:
seeing him not; and so without intention: the Jews (s) from hence gather, that a blind man is to…
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.