Exodus 21:13

21:13 But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

Exodus 12:39

12:39 They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast – because they were thrust out of Egypt and were not able to delay, they could not prepare food for themselves either.


tn Heb “if he does not lie in wait” (NASB similar).

tn Heb “and God brought into his hand.” The death is unintended, its circumstances outside human control.

sn For the use of this word in developing the motif, see Exod 2:17, 22; 6:1; and 11:1.

tn Heb “and also.”

tn The verb is עָשׂוּ (’asu, “they made”); here, with a potential nuance, it is rendered “they could [not] prepare.”