So he went with them, and when they arrived at the Jordan they began to cut down trees.
One of them requested, “Please agree to accompany your servants.” He replied, “Yes, I will come.”
While one of them was felling a tree trunk, the iron ax blade slipped into the water. He cried out, “Oh, no, master! It was borrowed!”
For example, if someone goes with a neighbor to a forest to cut wood, wielding an ax to cut down a tree, and its head flies off the handle and hits the neighbor a mortal blow, such a person may take refuge in one of these cities and live.
to enter into the covenant of the Lord, your God, which the Lord, your God, is making with you today, with its curse,