Deuteronomy 19:5

Good News Translation

For example, if two of you go into the forest together to cut wood and if, as one of you is chopping down a tree, the ax head comes off the handle and kills the other, you can run to one of those three cities and be safe.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:4

and they set out together. When they arrived at the Jordan, they began to work.

Proverbs 27:12

Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

Isaiah 32:2

Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind and a place to hide from storms. They will be like streams flowing in a desert, like the shadow of a giant rock in a barren land.

Numbers 35:25

You are guilty only of manslaughter, and the community is to rescue you from the dead person's relative, and they are to return you to the city of refuge to which you had escaped. You must live there until the death of the man who is then High Priest.

Deuteronomy 19:4

If you accidentally kill someone who is not your enemy, you may escape to any of these cities and be safe.

Deuteronomy 19:6

If there were only one city, the distance to it might be too great, and the relative who is responsible for taking revenge for the killing might catch you and angrily kill an innocent person. After all, it was by accident that you killed someone who was not your enemy.