Numbers 35:12

New American Bible - revised edition

These cities will serve you as places of asylum from the avenger of blood, so that a homicide will not be put to death until tried before the community.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:6

Should the distance be too great, the avenger of blood might in hot anger pursue, overtake, and strike the killer dead, even though that one does not deserve the death penalty since there had been no previous hatred;

Joshua 20:9

These are the designated cities to which any Israelite or alien residing among them who had killed a person unintentionally might flee to escape death at the hand of the avenger of blood, until the killer could appear before the community.

2 Samuel 14:7

Then the whole clan confronted your servant and demanded: ‘Give up the one who struck down his brother. We must put him to death for the life of his brother whom he has killed; we must do away with the heir also.’ Thus they will quench my remaining hope and leave my husband neither name nor posterity upon the earth.”

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood is the one who will kill the murderer, putting the individual to death on sight.

Numbers 35:13

As for the cities you assign, you will have six cities of asylum:

Deuteronomy 19:4

This is the case of a homicide who may take refuge there and live: when someone strikes down a neighbor unintentionally and not out of previous hatred.

Joshua 20:2

Tell the Israelites: Designate for yourselves the cities of refuge of which I spoke to you through Moses,