Deuteronomy 19:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“But if someone at enmity with another lies in wait and attacks and takes the life of that person and flees into one of these cities,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But if any man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, and attacks him and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the assailant flees into one of these cities,

American Standard Version (1901)

But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so that he dieth, and he flee into one of these cities;

Common English Bible

But if someone does hate a neighbor and ambushes him, rising up against him and attacking him so he dies, and then escapes to one of these cities,

Catholic Public Domain Version

But if anyone, having hatred for his neighbor, will have lain in ambush for his life, and, rising up, will have struck him, and he will have died, and if he will have fled to one of the cities stated above,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But if any man hating his neighbour lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die; and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid:

Deuteronomy 19:11 Cross References

Genesis 9:5

For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed, for in his own image God made humans.

Proverbs 28:17

If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

Numbers 35:24

then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances,

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of the killer’s city shall send to have the culprit taken from there and handed over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.

Deuteronomy 27:24

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down a neighbor in secret.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

1 John 3:15

All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.