Deuteronomy 19:5

Tree of Life Version

as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand takes a swing with the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron flies off the wood and hits his neighbor so that he dies. He may flee to one of these cities and live.

Cross References

2 Kings 6:4

So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they began to cut down trees.

Proverbs 27:12

The prudent see danger and hide, but the naïve keep going and pay the penalty.

Isaiah 32:2

Each will be like a refuge from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a massive rock in a weary land.

Numbers 35:25

The assembly must protect the manslayer from the avenger of blood. The assembly should send him back to the city of refuge to which he had fled and he is to remain there until the death of the kohen gadol who was anointed with the holy oil.

Deuteronomy 19:4

Now this is the case of the one who kills, who may flee there and live—whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally and did not hate him in the past—

Deuteronomy 19:6

Otherwise if the way is long, the avenger of the blood, while his heart is hot, may chase the manslayer, catch up to him and strike him dead. Yet no death sentence is on him, since he did not hate him in the past.