Deuteronomy 4:42

4:42 Anyone who accidentally killed someone ¹  without hating him at the time of the accident ²  could flee to one of those cities and be safe.

Deuteronomy 19:11

19:11 However, suppose a person hates someone else ³  and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, ⁴  and then flees to one of these cities.

Deuteronomy 20:6

20:6 Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

Deuteronomy 22:8

22:8 If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail ⁵  around your roof to avoid being culpable ⁶  in the event someone should fall from it.

Deuteronomy 23:10

23:10 If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, ⁷  he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

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¹ tn Heb “the slayer who slew his neighbor without knowledge.”

² tn Heb “yesterday and a third (day).” The point is that there was no animosity between the two parties at the time of the accident and therefore no motive for the killing.

³ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

⁴ tn Heb “rises against him and strikes him fatally.”

⁵ tn Or “a parapet” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV); KJV “a battlement”; NLT “a barrier.”

⁶ tn Heb “that you not place bloodshed in your house.”

⁷ tn Heb “nocturnal happening.” The Hebrew term קָרֶה (qareh) merely means “to happen” so the phrase here is euphemistic (a “night happening”) for some kind of bodily emission such as excrement or semen. Such otherwise normal physical functions rendered one ritually unclean whether accidental or not. See Lev 15:16-18; 22:4.