Deuteronomy 19:5
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
Note head: Heb. iron
Note helve: Heb. wood
Note lighteth…: Heb. findeth
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
as when a man goeth into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbor, so that he dieth; he shall flee unto one of these cities and live:
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- head
- Heb. iron.
- 2 Kings 6:5–7
- helve
- Heb. wood. lighteth. Heb. findeth. he shall flee.
- Numbers 35:25; Proverbs 27:12; Isaiah 32:2