12Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.


In Context

9 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

11 But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Deuteronomy 19:12 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:12the elders of his town shall send for him, bring him back from the city, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:12The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the place of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of him whose blood was shed, and he shall die.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:12then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:12then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:12then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:12Then the elders of his city shall send and bring him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:12then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:12then the elders of his city have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:12Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.