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Numbers 35:10-12
Evangelical Heritage Version
Numbers 35:10-12
Evangelical Heritage Version
10 to speak to the Israelites and tell them this:
When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 11 you are to designate some cities to be cities of refuge for yourselves, so that a person who has killed someone by taking someone’s life unintentionally may flee there. 12 The cities will serve as a refuge for you from the avenger,[a] so that a person who has killed someone will not die until he stands trial before the community.
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- Numbers 35:12 Hebrew goel, which in other contexts is translated kinsman redeemer. Sometimes the avenger is called the avenger of blood. See verse 19 and following. When the goel is punishing murder, he is called an avenger. When he is recovering property, he is called a redeemer.
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