Deuteronomy 19:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:

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  • Num 35:25 : 25 And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.
  • 2 Kgs 6:5-7 : 5 But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's. 6 And the man of God said, Where did it go in? and when he saw the place where it had gone into the water, cutting a stick, he put it into the water, and the iron came up to the top of the water. 7 Then he said, Take it up. So he put out his hand and took it.
  • Prov 27:12 : 12 The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
  • Isa 32:2 : 2 And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 19:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3 You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.

    4 This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;

  • 6 For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.

  • Josh 20:3-6
    4 verses
    80%

    3 So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

    4 And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.

    5 And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

    6 And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

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    10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

    11 But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

    12 The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

  • 42 To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

  • Num 35:15-28
    14 verses
    77%

    15 For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

    16 But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

    17 Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

    18 Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

    19 He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

    20 If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;

    21 Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

    22 But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

    23 Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil:

    24 Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

    25 And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

    26 But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

    27 And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

    28 Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

  • 9 These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.

  • Num 35:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

    12 In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

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    12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

    13 But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

    14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

  • Deut 21:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1 If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:

    2 Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;

    3 And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

  • 9 He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.

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    18 If, in a fight, one man gives another a blow with a stone, or with the shut hand, not causing his death, but making him keep in bed;

    19 If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.

  • 19 If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?

  • 23 But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,

  • 19 Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

  • 17 One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

  • 21 Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • 19 And if a man does damage to his neighbour, as he has done, so let it be done to him;

  • 21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • 19 Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.

  • 2 If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.

  • 26 Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:

  • 17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

  • 9 But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

  • 19 As if a man, running away from a lion, came face to face with a bear; or went into the house and put his hand on the wall and got a bite from a snake.