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	Nave's—Homicide

Homicide

Distinguished from murder—Ex 21:13,14; Nu 35:16-21,25

JUSTIFIABLE, DESCRIBED AS

• Killing persons condemned by law
• —Ge 9:6; Ex 35:2; Le 24:16
• Killing a thief in the night
• —Ex 22:2
• Killing enemies in battle
• —Nu 31:7,8
• Killing a manslayer by next of kin
• —Nu 35:27

UNJUSTIFIABLE, DESCRIBED AS

• Killing without enmity
• —Nu 35:22
• Killing without lying in wait
• —Ex 21:13; Nu 35:22
• Killing by accident
• —Nu 35:23; De 19:5

The avenger of blood might slay those guilty of unjustifiable—Nu 35:19,27

Protection afforded in the cities of refuge to those guilty of unjustified—Nu 35:11,15

Confinement in the city of refuge the punishment for unjustifiable—Nu 35:25,28