Deu 19:6, Jer 26:11 | ESV | STEP | lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him , because the way is long , and strike him fatally , though the man did not deserve to die , since he had not hated his neighbor in the past .

b[See ver. 7 above]

Deuteronomy 19:6

6 lest ^athe avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.

Jeremiah 26:11

11 Then ^bthe priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, ^c“This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”