Deuteronomy 4:42
ContextNET © | Anyone who accidentally killed someone 1 without hating him at the time of the accident 2 could flee to one of those cities and be safe. |
NIV © | to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if he had unintentionally killed his neighbour without malice aforethought. He could flee into one of these cities and save his life. |
NASB © | that a manslayer might flee there, who unintentionally slew his neighbor without having enmity toward him in time past; and by fleeing to one of these cities he might live: |
NLT © | where anyone who had accidentally killed someone without having any previous hostility could flee for safety. |
MSG © | to which someone who had unintentionally killed a person could flee and find refuge. If the murder was unintentional and there was no history of bad blood, the murderer could flee to one of these cities and save his life: |
BBE © | To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death: |
NRSV © | to which a homicide could flee, someone who unintentionally kills another person, the two not having been at enmity before; the homicide could flee to one of these cities and live: |
NKJV © | that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live: |
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NET © | Anyone who accidentally killed someone 1 without hating him at the time of the accident 2 could flee to one of those cities and be safe. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “the slayer who slew his neighbor without knowledge.” 2 tn Heb “yesterday and a third (day).” The point is that there was no animosity between the two parties at the time of the accident and therefore no motive for the killing. |