Deuteronomy 19:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;

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  • Num 35:15-24 : 15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. 16 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death. 20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died, 21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him. 22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, 23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; 24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;
  • Deut 4:42 : 42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
  • Deut 19:6 : 6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
  • Josh 3:4 : 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
  • 1 Chr 11:2 : 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh your God said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.
  • Isa 30:33 : 33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, does kindle it.
  • Gen 31:2 : 2 Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 4:42
    89%

    42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

  • Josh 20:2-6
    5 verses
    87%

    2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

    3 that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

    4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

    5 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before.

    6 He shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from whence he fled.

  • Deut 19:5-7
    3 verses
    84%

    5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

    6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

    7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.

  • Deut 19:10-13
    4 verses
    82%

    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

    11 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;

    12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

    13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Josh 20:9
    82%

    9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

  • Num 35:11-13
    3 verses
    82%

    11 then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

    12 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

    13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

  • Deut 19:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

    3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

  • Num 35:15-29
    15 verses
    78%

    15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

    16 But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

    20 If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

    21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

    22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

    23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

    24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

    25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

    26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

    27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

    28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

    29 These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Exod 21:12-14
    3 verses
    75%

    12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

    13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

    14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

  • Deut 21:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

    2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:

  • Num 15:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28 The priest shall make atonement for the soul who errs, when he sins unwittingly, before Yahweh, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.

    29 You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is home-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.

  • Lev 4:2
    70%

    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them:

  • Num 35:32
    70%

    32 You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

  • Prov 28:17
    69%

    17 A man who is tormented by life blood will be a fugitive until death; No one will support him.

  • Deut 22:26
    69%

    26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

  • Lev 4:27
    69%

    27 "'If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;

  • Num 35:6
    68%

    6 The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

  • Deut 19:19
    68%

    19 then shall you do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • Lev 5:18
    68%

    18 He shall bring a ram without blemish from of the flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing in which he sinned and didn't know it, and he will be forgiven.

  • Lev 24:17
    68%

    17 "'He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.