Deuteronomy 4:42

4:42 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 19:5

19:5 Suppose he goes with someone else ³  to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax ⁴  to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose ⁵  from the handle and strikes ⁶  his fellow worker ⁷  so hard that he dies. The person responsible ⁸  may then flee to one of these cities to save himself. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 24:5

24:5 When a man is newly married, he need not go into ¹⁰  the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to ¹¹  the wife he has married.

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

⁴ tn Heb “and he raises his hand with the iron.”

⁵ tn Heb “the iron slips off.”

⁶ tn Heb “finds.”

⁷ tn Heb “his neighbor.”

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the person responsible for his friend’s death) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “and live.”

⁵ tn Heb “go out with.”

⁶ tc For the MT’s reading Piel שִׂמַּח (simmakh, “bring joy to”), the Syriac and others read שָׂמַח (samakh, “enjoy”).