Numbers 35:19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁹ The avenger of blood shall himself put the manslayer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ The avenger of blood shall himself slay the murderer; when he meets him, he shall slay him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ The kinsman of him that was slain shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.

Numbers 35:19 Cross References

Genesis 4:14

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that whosoever findeth me shall slay me.

2 Samuel 14:11

Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shalt not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

2 Samuel 14:7

And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also: thus shall they quench my coal which is left, and shall leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.

2 Samuel 3:27

And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the belly, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

2 Samuel 3:30

So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

Numbers 35:12

And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgement.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a manslayer: the manslayer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:20

And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died;

Numbers 35:21

or in enmity smote him with his hand, that he died: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a manslayer: the avenger of blood shall put the manslayer to death, when he meeteth him.

Numbers 35:24

then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judgements:

Numbers 35:27

and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

Deuteronomy 19:12

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.

Deuteronomy 19:6

lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

Joshua 20:3

that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly and unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:5

And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unawares, and hated him not beforetime.

Judges 8:19

And he said, They were my brethren, the sons of my mother: as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.