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.


In Context

9 because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today-to love the Lord your God and to walk always in his ways-then you are to set aside three more cities.

10 Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

11 But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, assaults and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

12 the 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.

13 Show him no pity. You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.

14 Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 19:12 in Other Translations

The King James 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 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.