12 And the cities must serve YOU as a refuge from the blood avenger,*+ that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the assembly for judgment.+

19 “‘The avenger+ of blood is the one who will put the murderer to death. When he chances upon him he himself will put him to death.

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.+

7 And here all the family have risen up against your maidservant and keep saying, ‘Give over the striker of his brother, that we may put him to death for the soul of his brother+ whom he killed,+ and let us even annihilate the heir!’ And they will certainly extinguish the glow of my charcoals that has remained, so as to assign to my husband neither a name nor a remnant* on the surface of the ground.”+