Deuteronomy 19:11

Easy To Read Version

“But a man might hate another person. That man might hide, waiting to kill the person he hates. He might kill that person and run away into one of those cities of safety.

Cross References

Genesis 9:5

I will demand your blood for your lives. That is, I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person. And I will demand the life of any person who takes another person’s life.

Genesis 9:6

“God made people as a copy of himself. So any person who kills a person must be killed by a person.

Proverbs 28:17

If a person is guilty of killing another person, then that person will never have peace. Don’t support that person.

Numbers 35:24

If that happens, then the community must decide what to do. The community’s court must decide if a member of the dead man’s family [388] can kill that person.

Deuteronomy 19:12

If that happens, then the elders (leaders) in that man’s home town must send someone to get him and take him away from the city of safety. Those leaders must give that man to the close relative. [125] The murderer must die.

Deuteronomy 27:24

“{The Levites will say,} ‘Cursed is the person that kills another person, even if he is not caught!’

1 John 3:15

Every person who hates his brother or sister is a murderer. {\cf2\super [12]} And you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.