Deuteronomy 19:12

Easy To Read Version

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.

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.

2 Samuel 14:7

Now the whole family is against me. They said to me, ‘Bring us the son who killed his brother and we will kill him. Why? Because he killed his brother.’ My son is like the last spark of a fire. If they kill my son, then that fire will burn out and be finished. He is the only son left alive to get his father’s property. So my {dead} husband’s property will go to someone else and his name will be removed from the land.”

Exodus 21:14

But if a person planned to kill another person because he is angry or hates him, then that killer must be punished. Take him away from my altar [134] and kill him.

Deuteronomy 19:11

“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.

Deuteronomy 19:13

You must not feel sorry for him. He was guilty of killing an innocent person. You must remove that guilt from Israel. Then everything will go well for you.

Deuteronomy 27:24

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