Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me.”
Numbers 35:19 - Revised Standard Version The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The avenger of blood shall himself slay the murderer; when he meets him, he shall slay him. American Standard Version (1901) The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death. Common English Bible The close relative responsible for the blood of the dead is the one who will put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he will execute him. Catholic Public Domain Version The close relative of the deceased shall put to death the murderer; as soon as he apprehends him, he shall put him to death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The kinsman of him that was slain shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him. |
Behold, thou hast driven me this day away from the ground; and from thy face I shall be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will slay me.”
Then she said, “Pray let the king invoke the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood slay no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”
And now the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew’; and so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the face of the earth.”
And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he smote him in the belly, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.
The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be put to death.
And if he stabbed him from hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,
or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death; he is a murderer; the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances;
and the avenger of blood finds him outside the bounds of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slays the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood.
then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.
lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and wound him mortally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he was not at enmity with his neighbor in time past.
that the manslayer who kills any person without intent or unwittingly may flee there; they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.
And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the slayer into his hand; because he killed his neighbor unwittingly, having had no enmity against him in times past.
And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother; as the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not slay you.”