Deuteronomy 19:5

The Scriptures 2009

even he who goes to the forest with his neighbour to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbour so that he dies – let him flee to one of these cities and live,

Cross References

2 Kings 6:4

And he went with them, and they came to the Yardĕn, and they cut down trees.

Proverbs 27:12

A clever man foresees calamity, hides himself; The simple shall go on, they are punished.

Isaiah 32:2

And each one shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the downpour, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Numbers 35:25

And the congregation shall rescue the man-slayer from the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge where he had fled, and he shall remain there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the set-apart oil.

Deuteronomy 19:4

And this matter of the man-slayer who flees there and lives: he who strikes his neighbour unknowingly, not having hated him in time past,”

Deuteronomy 19:6

lest the revenger of blood, while his displeasure is hot, pursue the man-slayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and shall strike his being, though he was not worthy of death, since he had not hated him before.