Personal Injuries

¹² “Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal blow is to be put to death.^(A)

³⁰ “‘Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.^(A)

³¹ “‘Do not accept a ransom^(A) for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.

¹¹ But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor,^(A) and then flees to one of these cities,

¹² the killer shall be sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and be handed over to the avenger of blood to die.