John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 35:17

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And if he smite him with throwing a stone, etc.] “Or with a stone of the hand” f517, which the Jews interpret of a stone so big as to fill a man’s hand, and so wherewith he may die; at whom it is thrown; is sufficient to cause his death, if struck with it; so the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it of a “stone of fulness of hands, which is sufficient that a man may die with it,” or be killed by it: and he die; by the blow he receives from it, either immediately or in a short time after: he is a murderer, and the murderer shall surely be put to death; as in the above case.

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