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Deuteronomy 19:6
For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.

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Deuteronomy 19:5
For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:

Joshua 20:3
So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

Joshua 20:4
And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.

Joshua 20:5
And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

Joshua 20:6
And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

Numbers 35:12
In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

2 Samuel 14:11
Then she said, Let the king keep in mind the Lord your God, so that he who gives punishment for blood may be kept back from further destruction and that no one may send death on my son. And he said, By the living Lord, not a hair of your son's head will come to the earth.

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Numbers 35:27
And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

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Deuteronomy 21:22
If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

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Numbers 35:19
He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

Numbers 35:24
Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

2 Samuel 14:7
And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

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Numbers 35:26
But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

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Genesis 37:21
But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life.

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