Deuteronomy 19:4-6
1599 Geneva Bible
4 ¶ This also is the cause wherefore the manslayer shall flee thither, and live: who so killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and hated him not in time passed:
5 As he that goeth unto the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand striketh with the axe to cut down the tree, if the head slip from the helve, and hit his neighbor that he dieth, the same [a]shall flee unto one of the cities, and live,
6 Lest the (A)avenger of the blood follow after the manslayer while his heart is chafed, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him, although he be not [b]worthy of death, because he hated him not in time passed.
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- Deuteronomy 19:5 That murder be not committed upon murder.
- Deuteronomy 19:6 Or, cannot be judged to death.
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