Bible Verses About Homicide: Accidental

If an ox gore a man or a woman, and they die, he shall be stoned: and his flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

But if the ox was wont to push with his horn yesterday, and the day before, and they warned his master, and he did not shut him up, and he shall kill a man or a woman: then the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

And if they set a price upon him, he shall give for his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

If he have gored a son, or a daughter, he shall fall under the like sentence.

If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.

And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.

And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,

Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Chanaan,

As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will.

But if by chance medley, and without hatred,

And enmity, he do any of these things,

And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:

The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished,

And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him.

For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his own country.

Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east side,

That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he might escape to some one of these cities:

Bosor in the wilderness, which is situate in the plains of the tribe of Ruben: and Ramoth in Galaad, which is in the tribe of Gad: and Golan in Basan, which is in the tribe of Manasses.

Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of the land, which the Lord will give thee in possession,

Paving diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole province of thy land equally into three parts: that he who is forced to flee for manslaughter, may have near at hand whither to escape.

This shall be the law of the slayer that fleeth, whose life is to be saved: He that killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and who is proved to have had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before:

But to have gone with him to the wood to hew wood, and in cutting down the tree the axe slipped out of his hand, and the iron slipping from the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities aforesaid, and live:

Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed on by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too long, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain.