13 But where one does not lie in wait and the [true] God lets it occur at his hand,*+ then I must fix for you a place where he can flee.+

5 or when he goes with his fellowman into the woods to gather* wood, and his hand has been raised to strike with the ax to cut the tree, and the iron has slipped off from the wooden handle,+ and it has hit his fellowman and he has died, he himself should flee to one of these cities and must live.+

3 for the manslayer+ who fatally strikes a soul unintentionally without knowing it to flee there; and they must serve YOU as a refuge from the avenger* of blood.+

5 And in case the avenger of blood chases after him, then they should not surrender the manslayer into his hand;+ for it was without knowing it that he struck his fellowman fatally, and he was not hating him formerly.+