And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.
And if he smite him with throwing a stone,.... "Or with a stone of the hand" (q), 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...
And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. (g) That is, with a big and dangerous stone: in Hebrew, with a stone of his hand.
Num 35:16-18 Special instructions are given in Num 35:16-28, with reference to the judicial procedure. First of all (Num 35:16-21), with regard to qualified slaying or murder. If any person has struck another with an iron instrument (an axe, hatchet, hammer, etc.), or “with a stone of the hand, from which one dies,” i.e., with a stone which filled the hand, - a large stone...
Commenting on Numbers 35:16-18