John Gill Commentary Numbers 35:17

"And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death." — Numbers 35:17 (ASV)

And if he smite him with throwing a stone
"Or with a stone of the hand" ^F17 , which the Jews interpret of a stone so big as to fill a man's hand, and so

with which 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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FOOTNOTES:

• F17: (dy Nbab) .