Deuteronomy 19:6

Modern English Version

Otherwise the avenger of blood might, while he is angry, pursue the manslayer and overtake him (because the way is long) and kill him, even though he was not worthy of death (since he did not hate him previously).

Cross References

Numbers 35:12

The cities will be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer does not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

2 Samuel 14:7

Now the entire family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they will extinguish my remaining ember, and leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Joshua 20:5

When the avenger of blood comes after him, they shall not hand over the manslayer to him, for he struck down his neighbor unintentionally with no premeditated malice.

Deuteronomy 21:22

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and is executed, and you hang him on a tree,

Deuteronomy 19:5

like when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand raises the axe to cut down the tree, and the axe head slips from the handle and lands on his neighbor causing him to die, then he may flee to one of those cities, and live.

Deuteronomy 19:7

Therefore, I command you, saying, “You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.”