Deuteronomy 19:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

If, for example, he goes into the forest with his neighbour to cut timber, and his hand swings the axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbour so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.

Cross References

Isaiah 32:2

Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the rain, like flowing streams  in a dry land and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.

Proverbs 27:12

A sensible person sees danger and takes cover; the inexperienced keep going and are punished.

Numbers 35:25

The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Deuteronomy 19:4

‘Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbour accidentally without previously hating him:

Deuteronomy 19:6

Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger  might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die,  since he did not previously hate his neighbour.

2 Kings 6:4

So he went with them, and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.