Deuteronomy 19:6

New King James Version

lest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

And now the whole family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may execute him for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they would extinguish my ember that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”

Numbers 35:12

They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

Deuteronomy 19:5

as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live;

Deuteronomy 19:7

Therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall separate three cities for yourself.’

Deuteronomy 21:22

“If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

Joshua 20:5

Then if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not deliver the slayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, but did not hate him beforehand.