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Deuteronomy 19:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. "

Deuteronomy 19:12

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10 This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

11 But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

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.

13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.

14 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 the LORD your God gives you to possess.

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Numbers 35:25

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"The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil."

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Deuteronomy 22:18

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"The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him."

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Numbers 35:12

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"The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment."

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Joshua 20:6

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"He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”"

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Deuteronomy 21:2

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"then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain."

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Joshua 20:4

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"He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them."

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Deuteronomy 19:1

"When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,"

Deuteronomy 19:2

"you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess."

Deuteronomy 19:3

"You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there."

Deuteronomy 19:4

"This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—"

Deuteronomy 19:5

"as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live."

Deuteronomy 19:6

"Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past."

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