Deuteronomy 19:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“But if someone at enmity with another lies in wait and attacks and takes the life of that person and flees into one of these cities,

Cross References

Genesis 9:5

For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed, for in his own image God made humans.

Proverbs 28:17

If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

Numbers 35:24

then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances,

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of the killer’s city shall send to have the culprit taken from there and handed over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.

Deuteronomy 27:24

“ ‘Cursed be anyone who strikes down a neighbor in secret.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

1 John 3:15

All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.