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Deuteronomy 19:12
“then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 19
that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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