Deuteronomy 19:6

Tree of Life Version

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.

Cross References

Numbers 35:12

They are to be cities for refuge from the avenger, so the manslayer may not die before standing trial before the assembly.

2 Samuel 14:7

Now behold, the whole clan has risen against your handmaid and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother so we may put him to death, for the life of his brother whom he slew.’ So they will also destroy the heir and extinguish my one remaining ember, leaving to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth!”

Joshua 20:5

Now if the blood avenger pursues him, then they will not hand the manslayer over to him, since he killed his neighbor without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.

Deuteronomy 21:22

“Suppose a man is guilty of a sin with a death sentence and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree.

Deuteronomy 19:5

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.

Deuteronomy 19:7

Therefore I am commanding you—set apart three cities for yourself.