Accidental death to
Deuteronomy 4:42
To which anyone who had killed a person could flee if he had
unintentionally killed his neighbor without malice aforethought. He could flee
into one of these cities and save his life.
Deuteronomy 19:4-11
4 his is the rule concerning the man who kills another and
flees there to save his life—one who kills his neighbor unintentionally,
without malice aforethought.
5 For instance, a man may go into the forest with his
neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly
off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities
and save his life.
6 Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage,
overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not
deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice
aforethought.
7 This is why I command you to set aside for yourselves three
cities.
8 If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he
promised on oath to your forefathers, and gives you the whole land he promised
them,
9 because you carefully follow all these laws I command
you today—to love the LORD your God and to walk always in his ways—then you are
to set aside three more cities.
10 Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your
land, which the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that
you will not be guilty of bloodshed.
11 But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him,
assaults and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,
Eating crops of
Deuteronomy 23:25
If you enter your neighbor's grain field, you may pick
kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain.
Smiting secretly
Deuteronomy 27:24
“Cursed is the man who kills his neighbor secretly.” Then all
the people shall say, “Amen!”
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