Numbers 35:22

Cities Of Refuge

²¹ or if, in enmity, he struck the victim down with his hand, and he died, the one that struck the victim shall certainly be put to death; he is a murderer. The blood avenger shall put the murderer to death when he meets him. ²² ‘But if he pushed the victim suddenly, not in enmity, or threw anything at him without malicious intent, ²³ or without seeing him hit him [accidentally] with a stone object that could kill him, and he died, and [the offender] was not his enemy nor intending to harm him,

In an Instant

Your Enemy

Exodus 21:13

However, if he did not lie in wait [for him], but God allowed him to fall into his hand, then I will establish for you a place to which he may escape [for protection until duly tried].

Numbers 35:11

then you shall select for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge, so that the one who kills any person unintentionally may escape there.

Deuteronomy 19:5

as [for example] when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, but the iron head slips off the wooden handle and hits his companion and he dies—the offender may escape to one of these cities and live;

Joshua 20:3

so that the person (manslayer) who kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall be your refuge from the blood avenger.

Joshua 20:5

If the blood avenger pursues him, they shall not hand the offender (manslayer) over to him, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.