Deuteronomy 19:11

New American Bible - revised edition

However, if someone, hating a neighbor, lies in wait, attacks, and strikes the neighbor dead, and then flees to one of these cities,

Cross References

Genesis 9:5

Indeed for your own lifeblood I will demand an accounting: from every animal I will demand it, and from a human being, each one for the blood of another, I will demand an accounting for human life.

Genesis 9:6

Anyone who sheds the blood of a human being, by a human being shall that one’s blood be shed; For in the image of God have human beings been made.

Proverbs 28:17

Though a person burdened with blood guilt is in flight even to the grave, let no one offer support.

Numbers 35:24

then the community will judge between the assailant and the avenger of blood in accordance with these norms.

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders of the killer’s own city shall send and have the killer taken from there, to be handed over to the avenger of blood and slain.

Deuteronomy 27:24

“Cursed be anyone who strikes down a neighbor in secret!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.