Deuteronomy 19:10-12

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁰ Lest innocent blood be shed in your land, which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and so blood guilt be upon you.

¹¹ But if any man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, and attacks him and wounds him mortally so that he dies, and the assailant flees into one of these cities,

¹² Then the elders of his own city shall send for him and fetch him from there and give him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.