Deuteronomy 19:11 · KJV
“But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: {mortally: Heb. in life}”
— Deuteronomy 19:11
That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance, and {so} blood be upon thee.
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Deuteronomy 19 — Context
If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
10That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance, and {so} blood be upon thee.
11But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: {mortally: Heb. in life}
12Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away {the guilt of} innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Cross References
Numbers 35:16-21
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he {is} a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 27:24
Cursed {be} he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Genesis 9:6
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Exodus 21:12-14
He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.
Numbers 35:24
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
Proverbs 28:17
A man that doeth violence to the blood of {any} person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.