Deuteronomy 19:3-5
New American Standard Bible
3 You shall prepare the [a]roads for yourself, and divide into three regions the territory of your land which the Lord your God will give you as an inheritance, [b]so that anyone who commits manslaughter may flee there.
4 “(A)Now this is the case of the one who commits manslaughter, who may flee there and live: when he [c]kills his friend [d]unintentionally, [e]not hating him previously— 5 as when a person goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand [f]swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the [g]handle and [h]strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live.
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- Deuteronomy 19:3 Lit road
- Deuteronomy 19:3 Lit and it shall be for everyone who committed manslaughter to flee there
- Deuteronomy 19:4 Lit strikes
- Deuteronomy 19:4 Lit without knowledge
- Deuteronomy 19:4 Lit and he was not hating him previously
- Deuteronomy 19:5 Lit is put to the
- Deuteronomy 19:5 Lit wood
- Deuteronomy 19:5 Lit finds
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