Deuteronomy 19:11-12

19:11 However, suppose a person hates someone else ¹  and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, ²  and then flees to one of these cities. 19:12 The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger ³  to die.

¹ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

² tn Heb “rises against him and strikes him fatally.”

³ tn The גֹאֵל הַדָּם (go’el haddam, “avenger of blood”) would ordinarily be a member of the victim’s family who, after due process of law, was invited to initiate the process of execution (cf. Num 35:16-28). See R. Hubbard, NIDOTTE 1:789-94.