However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.
For your lifeblood I will surely exact punishment, from every living creature I will exact punishment. From each person I will exact punishment for the life of the individual since the man was his relative.
“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”
The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.
then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.
The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.
‘Cursed is the one who kills his neighbor in private.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Everyone who hates his fellow Christian is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.