Numbers 35:19

Cities Of Refuge

¹⁸ Also, whoever uses a wooden implement to kill someone with it is to be adjudged a murderer, and that murderer is certainly to be put to death. ¹⁹ The blood avenger himself is to execute the murderer. When he meets him, the blood avenger is to put him to death. ²⁰ If the killer shoved his victim out of hatred, or hurled something at him while waiting in ambush so that he died,

Avenger of Blood

Face to Face

Put to Death

Make Sure

When He Comes

Numbers 35:21

or if he struck him with his hand out of hatred so that he died, then the killer is certainly to be put to death for murder. The avenger of blood is to put him to death when he meets him."

Deuteronomy 19:6

Since hile the distance may be great, the angry avenger may overtake the killer he is pursuing and kill him, in which case there will be no justice in his death, because he did not hate his friend previously.

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of his own city shall send for him, remove him from there, and deliver him to the related avenger for execution.

Joshua 20:3

so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally and without premeditation may run there and be protected from closely related avengers.

Joshua 20:5

Now if the closely related avenger pursues him, then they are not to hand the killer over to him, because he killed his neighbor without premeditation and without hating him beforehand.

Numbers 35:12

They are to serve as cities of refuge from a blood avenger in order to keep the inadvertent killer from dying until he has stood trial in the presence of the community.

Numbers 35:24

then the community is to judge between the inadvertent killer and the blood avenger, following these ordinances.

Numbers 35:27

and the blood avenger finds him outside the town of refuge where he had fled and kills him, the blood avenger is not to be found guilty of murder.