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.
Related Commentaries of Numbers 35:16
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.