Deuteronomy 19:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

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:

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  • Num 35:25 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 6:5-7 : 5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed. 6 The man of God said, Where fell it? He shown him the place. He cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to swim. 7 He said, Take it up to you. So he put out his hand, and took it.
  • Prov 27:12 : 12 A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; But the simple pass on, and suffer for it:
  • Isa 32:2 : 2 A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

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  • Deut 19:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3You 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.

    4This 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;

  • 6lest 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 20:3-6
    4 verses
    80%

    3that 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.

    4He 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.

    5If 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.

    6He 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.

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    10that 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.

    11But 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;

    12then 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.

  • 42that 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:

  • Num 35:15-28
    14 verses
    77%

    15For 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.

    16But 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.

    17If 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.

    18Or 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.

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

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

    21or 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.

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

    23or 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;

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

    25and 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.

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

    27and 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,

    28because 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.

  • 9These 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 35:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

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

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

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

  • Deut 21:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1If 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;

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

    3and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;

  • 9Whoever carves out stones may be injured by them. Whoever splits wood may be endangered thereby.

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    18"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

    19if he rises again and walks around with his staff, then he who struck him shall be cleared: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall provide for his healing until he is thoroughly healed.

  • 19When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy the trees of it by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

  • 23But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

  • 19It shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be on him.

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

  • 21Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • 19If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him:

  • 21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • 19then 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.

  • 2If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.

  • 26but 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;

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

  • 9but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • 19As if a man fled from a lion, And a bear met him; Or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall, And a snake bit him.