Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

'The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

New American Standard Bible

The blood avenger himself shall put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him.

King James Version

The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

Holman Bible

The avenger of blood himself is to kill the murderer; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

International Standard Version

The blood avenger himself is to execute the murderer. When he meets him, the blood avenger is to put him to death.

A Conservative Version

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

American Standard Version

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

Amplified

The blood avenger shall himself put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him.

Bible in Basic English

He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

Darby Translation

the avenger of blood, he shall put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

Julia Smith Translation

The nearest relative of blood he shall kill the slayer: in his meeting him he shall kill him.

King James 2000

The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The blood avenger himself will put the killer to death; he must put him to death when meeting him.

Modern King James verseion

The revenger of blood himself shall kill the murderer. When he meets him, he shall kill him.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The judge of blood shall slay the murderer, as soon as he findeth him.

NET Bible

The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

New Heart English Bible

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

The Emphasized Bible

The blood-redeemer, he, shall put to death the man-slayer, - when he lighteth upon him, he, shall put him to death.

Webster

The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

World English Bible

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
of blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

the murderer
רצח 
Ratsach 
Usage: 47

פּגע 
Paga` 
Usage: 46

him, he
היא הוּא 
Huw' 
Usage: 1716

מוּת 
Muwth 
Usage: 839

Context Readings

Cities Of Refuge

18 Or with a wooden instrument in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death. 19 'The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death. 20 And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast anything at him by lying in wait, and he dieth;



Cross References

Numbers 35:21

or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he is a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.

Deuteronomy 19:6

lest the redeemer of blood pursue after the man-slayer when his heart is hot, and hath overtaken him (because the way is great), and hath smitten him -- the life, and he hath no sentence of death, for he is not hating him heretofore;

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of his city have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;

Joshua 20:3

for the fleeing thither of a man-slayer smiting life inadvertently, without knowledge; and they have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer of blood.

Joshua 20:5

'And when the redeemer of blood doth pursue after him, then they do not shut up the man-slayer into his hand, for without knowledge he hath smitten his neighbour, and is not hating him hitherto;

Numbers 35:12

and the cities have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer, and the man-slayer doth not die till his standing before the company for judgment.

Numbers 35:24

then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments.

Numbers 35:27

and the redeemer of blood hath found him at the outside of the border of the city of his refuge, and the redeemer of blood hath slain the man-slayer, blood is not for him;

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