Deuteronomy 19:3

19:3 You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent ¹  of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.

Deuteronomy 19:11

19:11 However, suppose a person hates someone else ²  and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, ³  and then flees to one of these cities.

Deuteronomy 28:7

28:7 The Lord will cause your enemies who attack ⁴  you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction ⁵  but flee from you in seven different directions.

Deuteronomy 28:25

Curses by Defeat and Deportation

28:25 “The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror ⁶  to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:30

32:30 How can one man chase a thousand of them, ⁷ 

and two pursue ten thousand;

unless their Rock had delivered them up, ⁸ 

and the Lord had handed them over?

¹ tn Heb “border.”

² tn Heb “his neighbor.”

³ tn Heb “rises against him and strikes him fatally.”

³ tn Heb “who rise up against” (so NIV).

⁴ tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).

⁴ tc The meaningless MT reading זַעֲוָה (za’avah) is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun זְוָעָה (zÿva’ah, “terror”).

⁵ tn The words “man” and “of them” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “sold them” (so NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).