Deuteronomy 19:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:

Cross References

2 Kings 6:4

So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they got to work cutting down trees.

Proverbs 27:12

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

Isaiah 32:2

And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

Numbers 35:25

And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

Deuteronomy 19:4

This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;

Deuteronomy 19:6

For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.