Deuteronomy 19:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

Now the whole family has risen against your servant. They say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he murdered, even if we destroy the heir as well.’ Thus they would quench my one remaining ember and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Numbers 35:12

The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the slayer may not die until there is a trial before the congregation.

Deuteronomy 19:5

Suppose someone goes into the forest with another to cut wood, and when one of them swings the ax to cut down a tree, the head slips from the handle and strikes the other person, who then dies; the killer may flee to one of these cities and live.

Deuteronomy 19:7

Therefore I command you: You shall set apart three cities.

Deuteronomy 21:22

“When someone is convicted of a crime punishable by death and is executed and you hang him on a tree,

Joshua 20:5

And if the avenger of blood is in pursuit, they shall not give up the slayer because the neighbor was killed by mistake, there having been no enmity between them before.