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.


In Context

9 if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:

10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

12 then 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.

13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

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 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 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.