Undoubtedly, you would take advantage of this God - given provision: “This is the case of the manslayer who may flee [to a city of refuge] and has to live: When he strikes his fellowman without knowing it and he was no hater of him formerly; or when he goes with his fellowman into the woods to gather wood, and his hand has been raised to strike with the ax to cut the tree, and the iron has slipped off from the wooden handle, and it has hit his fellowman and he has died, he himself should flee to one of these cities and must live. ”
بدون شک ،‏ از این تدارکی که خدا در دسترس قرار داده بود ،‏ فایده می‌بردی :‏ « این است حکم قاتلی که [به شهر پناه] فرار کرده زنده ماند هر که همسایهٔ خود را نادانسته بکشد و قبل از آن از او بغض نداشت .‏ مثل کسیکه با همسایهٔ خود برای بُریدن درخت در جنگل برود و دستش برای قطع نمودن درخت تبر را بلند کند و آهن از دسته بیرون رفته بهمسایه‌اش بخورد تا بمیرد پس بیکی از آن شهرها فرار کرده زنده ماند .‏ »