Text -- Deuteronomy 19:5 (NET)

19:5 Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Deu 19:5

¹ tn Heb “his neighbor” (so NAB, NIV); NASB “his friend.”

² tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”

³ tn Heb “the iron slips off.”

⁴ tn Heb “finds.”

⁵ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person responsible for his friend’s death) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷ tn Heb “and live.”