Deuteronomy 19:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 0 That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ as when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand strikes with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips off the handle and lights on his neighbor and kills him–he may flee to one of those cities and live;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ as when a man goeth into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbor, so that he dieth; he shall flee unto one of these cities and live:

Common English Bible

⁵ or if someone goes into the forest with a neighbor to chop some wood, and while swinging an ax to cut down the tree, the axhead flies off its handle and hits the neighbor, who subsequently dies—these kinds of killers may escape to one of these cities and live.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ such that he had gone with him into the forest simply to cut wood, and in cutting down the tree, the axe slipped from his hand, or the iron slipped from the handle, and it struck his friend and killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities stated above, and he shall live.

Deuteronomy 19:5 Cross References

2 Kings 6:4

And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying: Beware that thou pass not to such a place: for the Syrians are there in ambush.

Proverbs 27:12

9 As the faces of them that look therein, shine in the water, so-the hearts of men are laid open to the wise.

Isaiah 32:2

0 For after days and a year, you that are confident shall be troubled: for the vintage is at an end, the gathering shall come no more.

Numbers 35:25

0 The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.

Deuteronomy 19:4

(Yet so, if thou keep his commandments, and do the things which I command thee this day, that thou love the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways at all times) thou shalt add to thee other three cities, and shalt double the number of the three cities aforesaid:

Deuteronomy 19:6

1 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,