Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 4:42 
Context4:42 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 19:4
Context19:4 Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, 3 if he has accidentally killed another 4 without hating him at the time of the accident. 5
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 “and this is the word pertaining to the one who kills who flees there and lives.”
4 tn Heb “who strikes his neighbor without knowledge.”
5 tn Heb “yesterday and a third (day)” (likewise in v. 6). 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. Cf. NAB “had previously borne no malice”; NRSV “had not been at enmity before.”
