Exodus 21:13
World English Bible (WEB)
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
In context
11 If he doesn’t do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.
12 “One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,
13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
15 “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
Exodus 21:13 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
- KJV King James Version
- And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.
- DBY Darby Translation
- But if he have not lain in wait, and God have delivered [him] into his hand, I will appoint thee a place to which he shall flee.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And if a man shall not lie in wait, but God shall deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.