Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 19:6 
Context19:6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, 1 and kill him, 2 though this is not a capital case 3 since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.
Deuteronomy 19:10
Context19:10 You must not shed innocent blood 4 in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty. 5
1 tn Heb “and overtake him, for the road is long.”
2 tn Heb “smite with respect to life,” that is, fatally.
3 tn Heb “no judgment of death.”
4 tn Heb “innocent blood must not be shed.” The Hebrew phrase דָּם נָקִי (dam naqiy) means the blood of a person to whom no culpability or responsibility adheres because what he did was without malice aforethought (HALOT 224 s.v דָּם 4.b).
5 tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”
