Deuteronomy 19:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Then the elders of his own city shall send for him and fetch him from there and give him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Common English Bible

¹² elders from the killer’s hometown will send word, and the killer will be sent back from there. They will then hand him over to the blood avenger, and he will be executed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² the elders of his city shall send, and they shall take him from the place of refuge, and they shall deliver him into the hand of the relative of him whose blood was shed, and he shall die.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the place of refuge: and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of him whose blood was shed. And he shall die.

Deuteronomy 19:12 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.

2 Samuel 14:7

Now the whole family has risen against your servant. They say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he murdered, even if we destroy the heir as well.’ Thus they would quench my one remaining ember and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Exodus 21:14

But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.

Deuteronomy 19:11

“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,

Deuteronomy 19:13

Show no pity; you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 27:24

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