So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.
Then one of them said, “Be pleased to go with your servants.” And he answered, “I will go.”
But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water; and he cried out, “Alas, my master! It was borrowed.”
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and save his life;
your little ones, your wives, and the sojourner who is in your camp, both he who hews your wood and he who draws your water,