Numbers 35:19 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁹ The revenger of blood himself puts the murderer to death. When he meets him, he puts 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.

Numbers 35:19 Cross References

Genesis 4:14

See, You have driven me from the face of the ground today, and I am hidden from Your face. I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and it shall be that anyone who finds me kills me.

2 Samuel 14:11

And she said, “Please let the sovereign remember יהוה your Elohim, and the redeemer of blood not destroy any more, lest they destroy my son.” And he said, “As יהוה lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

2 Samuel 14:7

“And see, the entire clan has risen up against your female servant and said, ‘Give him who struck his brother, so that we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would extinguish my burning coal that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”

2 Samuel 3:27

Thus Aḇnĕr returned to Ḥeḇron, and Yo’aḇ took him aside in the gate to speak with him privately, and there struck him in the stomach, so that he died for the blood of Asah’ĕl his brother.

2 Samuel 3:30

So Yo’aḇ and Aḇishai his brother killed Aḇnĕr, because he had killed their brother Asah’ĕl at Giḇ‛on in the battle.

Numbers 35:12

And they shall be cities of refuge for you from the revenger, and the man-slayer is not to die until he stands before the congregation for right-ruling.

Numbers 35:18

Or if he has stricken him with a wooden instrument that could kill, and he does die, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Numbers 35:20

And if he thrusts him through in hatred, or throws an object at him while lying in wait, so that he dies,”

Numbers 35:21

or in enmity he strikes him with his hand so that he dies, the one who struck him shall certainly be put to death, for he is a murderer. The revenger of blood puts the murderer to death when he meets him.

Numbers 35:24

then the congregation shall judge between him who struck someone and the revenger of blood, according to these right-rulings.

Numbers 35:27

and the revenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the revenger of blood executes the man-slayer, he is not guilty of blood,

Deuteronomy 19:12

and the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and give him into the hand of the revenger of blood, and he shall die.

Deuteronomy 19:6

lest the revenger of blood, while his displeasure is hot, pursue the man-slayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and shall strike his being, though he was not worthy of death, since he had not hated him before.

Joshua 20:3

for the man-slayer who strikes any being mistakenly, unknowingly, to flee there. And they shall be your refuge from the revenger of blood.

Joshua 20:5

And when the revenger of blood pursues him, they do not give the man-slayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbour unknowingly, and did not hate him beforehand.

Judges 8:19

And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As יהוה lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”