Numbers 35:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

If he smite him, wittingly and wilfully, though not with premeditated malice or design, as appears by comparing this with Numbers 35:20-23. So that he die, to wit, suddenly, not so if he walked abroad afterward, Exodus 21:19,20. Shall surely be put to death; yea, though he were fled into the city of refuge.

Numbers 35:16

16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.