Deuteronomy 19:5

Overview - Deuteronomy 19
The cities of refuge.
The privilege thereof for the manslayer.
14 The land-mark is not to be removed.
15 Two witnesses at the least are required.
16 The punishment of a false witness.
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Deuteronomy 19:5  (King James Version)
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:
 


head
Hebrew iron.
2 Kings 6:5-7

helve
Hebrew wood. lighteth. Hebrew findeth. he shall flee.
Numbers 35:25 ; Proverbs 27:12 ; Isaiah 32:2