“And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;”
Suppose someone goes into the forest with another to cut wood, and when one of them swings the ax to fell a tree, the head slips from the handle and strikes the other person who then dies; the killer may flee to one of these cities and live — the specific hypothetical of the axe-head slipping illustrates the genuine accident; the victim's death results from misfortune rather than malice or recklessness.
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