Differentiating between murder caused while moving one's body, or the weapon, upward, or downward (toward the victim): Makkot 7a-b, 9a, 9b
What happens to someone who murders, thinking murder is permitted: Makkot 7b, 9a
What happens to someone who intended to kill a creature other than a healthy Jew: Makkot 7b
What happens to someone who threw a stone to an area where no one had been when he threw the stone: Makkot 8a [2x]
What happens to someone who killed a person in running into him at a blind corner: Makkot 7b
What happens to someone who killed his enemy, apparently accidentally: Makkot 7b, 9b
What happens to someone who intended to perform a certain act, but in the end performed a different act, which led to the murder: Makkot 7b, 9b
Accidental murder on the property of the victim, or of the assailant: Makkot 7b, 8a
What happens of a rung falls from beneath a person on a ladder, and kills someone: Makkot 7b
What happens if an axe blade pops out of the handle, striking someone: Makkot 7b
What happens if an axe blade pops out of the wood in which it had been embedded, striking someone: Makkot 7b
What happens if one's act leads to a second event, which in turn leads to the murder: Makkot 8a
Escaping to the City of Refuge
All murderers flee to the city of refuge; the accidental and intentional are sorted out later, by the court: Makkot 9b, 10b
Arranging to have two scholars accompany the murderer, to protect him: Makkot 9b, 10b
Exiling the murderer's teacher, along with him: Makkot 10a
Exiling the murderer's students, along with him: Makkot 10a
Punishment for a relative of the victim, if he kills the accidental murderer on his way to the city of refuge: Makkot 10b, 12a
Who is the "next of kin," if a father kills his son: Makkot 12a
Taking refuge in the outskirts of the city: Makkot 11b, 12a
Taking refuge in underground tunnels of the city: Makkot 12a
Taking refuge in a tree which straddles the city border: Makkot 12a
Treatment of a former non-refugee resident of a city of refuge, who now becomes a refugee there for an accidental murder: Makkot 12b, 13a
Obligation of a murderer to tell people in the city what he has done: Makkot 12b
The Cities of Refuge
Establishment of places of refuge while the Jews were travelling in the desert: Makkot 12b
Whether the first three cities were operational before the later three were established: Makkot 9b
The difference between the six main cities, and forty-two additional cities which were used for refuge: Makkot 10a
Measuring the city's outer border, if there is an obstacle in the way: Eruvin 35b, 58b
The arrangement of roads to the cities: Makkot 9b
The marking of the roads leading to these cities: Makkot 10a-b
The alignment of the three cities on the east of the Jordan, opposite those on the west side of the Jordan: Makkot 9b
How the sites of the cities were chosen: Makkot 9b, 10a
The size of the cities: Makkot 10a
Defining the borders based upon the livable areas: Makkot 12a
The provisions which were made to ensure that the cities would be self-sufficient: Makkot 10a
The provisions which were made to protect the inhabitants: Makkot 10a
Reuven's share in Israel contained a City of Refuge because Reuven tried to save Joseph's life: Makkot 10a
Whether the cities could be used if the majority of the inhabitants were murderers: Makkot 10b
Whether the cities could be used if they did not contain people who qualified as City Elders: Makkot 10b
Whether the refugees had to pay rent to the Levites, whose cities these were: Makkot 13a
Burial in the city of refuge for an accidental murderer: Makkot 11b [2x], 12a
Creating a general cemetery in a city of refuge: Makkot 12a
Leaving the City of Refuge during one's term there
Leaving the city of refuge to testify in a court case: Makkot 11b
Leaving the city of refuge to lead the army, or for a similar public need: Makkot 11b
Whether it is appropriate for the victim's relative to kill the accidental murderer, if the murderer leaves the city of refuge: Makkot 11b, 12a
Whether it is appropriate for an outsider to kill an accidental murder, if the murderer leaves the city of refuge and there is no relative to avenge the original death: Makkot 12a
Differentiating between accidental and intentional departure, in terms of the right of the victim's kin to murder the accidental murderer: Makkot 12a
Whether the death of any Head Kohen, no matter how he had been installed, led to freedom for accidental murderers: Makkot 11a, 11b
Whether the death of a past Head Kohen led to freedom for accidental murderers: Makkot 11a
Whether the death of the Kohen who led the Jews in war would free accidental murderers: Makkot 11a
The mother of the Head Kohen would provide food and garb for accidental murderers, to keep them from praying for the Head Kohen to die: Makkot 11a [2x]
What happened if the Head Kohen died during the trial: Makkot 11b [2x]
What happened if the murder occured when there was no Head Kohen: Makkot 11b [2x]
What if a Head Kohen committed accidental murder: Makkot 11b
What if a Head Kohen was a victim of accidental murder: Makkot 11b
What if the murderer died before the trial ended: Makkot 11b
What if the Head Kohen was declared invalid as a Kohen: Makkot 11b-12a
Whether a murderer who was then freed from the city could return to a former position of authority and prestige: Makkot 13a
Special Cases of Exile
The punishment for Edim Zomimin who would have required a defendant to be exiled: Makkot 2a, 2b (2x)
Blind people: Makkot 9b
Patricide: Makkot 8b [2x]
Bruising one's father: Makkot 8b
Killing one's son: Makkot 8b [2x]
Killing a Ger Toshav: Makkot 8b, 9a
A Ger Toshav who kills accidentally: Makkot 8b, 9a
A Eved Kenaani who kills accidentally: Makkot 8b
Killing a Eved Kenaani accidentally: Makkot 8b
A Kuti who kills accidentally: Makkot 8b
Killing a Kuti accidentally: Makkot 8b
A murder which occurs inside a City of Refuge: Makkot 12b
A murder performed by a Levite: Makkot 12b
A father who kills his son accidentally, while disciplining him: Makkot 8a
A teacher who kills his student accidentally, while disciplining him: Makkot 8a, 8b
Exiling a teacher who is in the middle of teaching Torah: Makkot 10a
A court officer who accidentally kills a person who is undergoing court-ordered lashes: Makkot 8a, 8b
A court officer who kills a person who is undergoing court-added lashes, by delivering an extra stroke: Makkot 22b
Exiling Angels: Makkot 12a Requirement of a master to support his eved, if the eved is sent to a City of Refuge: Gittin 12a Requirement of the husband to feed his wife, if she is sent to a City of Refuge: Gittin 12a
Non-law-oriented passages regarding the Cities of Refuge
Moses's desire to set up the cities of refuge: Makkot 10a
HaShem's promise to Moses that Moses would get to establish cities of refuge: Makkot 12b
Allocation of the cities of refuge was like the illumination of the sun for accidental murderers: Makkot 10a
This Mitzvah follows Gd's general pattern of aiding people to get on to the proper path: Makkot 10b
Why Gd used a strong tone in instructing Joshua regarding the Cities of Refuge: Makkot 10b-11a
Why the death of the Head Kohen would free the accidental murderers: Makkot 11a, 11b Samael, the Angel of Esav, fleeing to Batzrah, thinking it a city of refuge for him: Makkot 12a
