Numbers 35:19

Good News Translation

The dead person's nearest relative has the responsibility for putting the murderer to death. When he finds you, he is to kill you.

Cross References

Genesis 4:14

You are driving me off the land and away from your presence. I will be a homeless wanderer on the earth, and anyone who finds me will kill me.”

2 Samuel 14:11

She said, “Your Majesty, please pray to the Lord your God, so that my relative who is responsible for avenging the death of my son will not commit a greater crime by killing my other son.” “I promise by the living Lord,” David replied, “that your son will not be harmed in the least.”

2 Samuel 14:7

And now, sir, all my relatives have turned against me and are demanding that I hand my son over to them, so that they can kill him for murdering his brother. If they do this, I will be left without a son. They will destroy my last hope and leave my husband without a son to keep his name alive.”

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner arrived in Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate, as though he wanted to speak privately with him, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. And so Abner was murdered because he had killed Joab's brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 3:30

So Joab and his brother Abishai took revenge on Abner for killing their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.

Numbers 35:12

There you will be safe from the dead person's relative who seeks revenge. No one accused of manslaughter is to be put to death without a public trial.

Numbers 35:20

“If you hate someone and kill him by pushing him down or by throwing something at him

Numbers 35:21

or by striking him with your fist, you are guilty of murder and are to be put to death. The dead person's nearest relative has the responsibility for putting the murderer to death. When he finds you, he is to kill you.

Numbers 35:24

In such cases the community shall judge in your favor and not in favor of the dead person's relative who is seeking revenge.

Numbers 35:27

and if the dead person's relative finds you and kills you, this act of revenge is not murder.

Deuteronomy 19:12

In that case, the leaders of your own town are to send for you and hand you over to the relative responsible for taking revenge for the murder, so that you may be put to death.

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.

Joshua 20:3

If any of you accidentally kills someone, you can go there and escape the one who is looking for revenge.

Joshua 20:5

If the one looking for revenge follows you there, the people of the city must not hand you over to that one. They must protect you because you killed the person accidentally and not out of anger.

Judges 8:19

Gideon said, “They were my brothers, my own mother's sons. I solemnly swear that if you had not killed them, I would not kill you.”