Since You expelled me today from the face of the ground and I must be hidden from Your presence, then I will be a restless wanderer on the earth—anyone who finds me will kill me!”
Numbers 35:19 - Tree of Life Version The blood avenger himself may put the murderer to death. When he finds him, he is to kill him. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The avenger of blood shall himself slay the murderer; when he meets him, he shall slay him. American Standard Version (1901) The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death. Common English Bible The close relative responsible for the blood of the dead is the one who will put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he will execute him. Catholic Public Domain Version The close relative of the deceased shall put to death the murderer; as soon as he apprehends him, he shall put him to death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The kinsman of him that was slain shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him. |
Since You expelled me today from the face of the ground and I must be hidden from Your presence, then I will be a restless wanderer on the earth—anyone who finds me will kill me!”
“Please, let the king remember Adonai your God,” she said, “so that the avenger of blood does not destroy any more, so they won’t destroy my son.” “As Adonai lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son will fall to the ground.”
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!”
Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside within the gate to speak with him privately, and there stabbed him in the groin, so that he died—on account of the blood of his brother Asahel.
So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had killed their brother Asahel at Gibeon in battle.
They are to be cities for refuge from the avenger, so the manslayer may not die before standing trial before the assembly.
Or if someone has a wooden object that could kill and strikes anyone so that he dies, he is a murderer and the murderer must be put to death.
“If anyone pushes someone maliciously, or throws anything at him with deadly intent,
or with hostility hits him with his fist so that he dies, the one hitting him is a murderer. The blood avenger may put the murderer to death when he finds him.
the assembly must judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood according to these regulations.
and should the blood avenger find him outside the city limits of the refuge city, the blood avenger may put him to death without being guilty of his blood.
Then the elders of his hometown should send and take him from there and hand him over to the avenger of blood, to die.
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.
So the manslayer who kills any person by mistake and without premeditation may flee there. They will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
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.
“They were my brothers, the sons of my mother,” he said. “As Adonai lives, if only you had let them live, I would not kill you.”