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Numbers 35:24

Context
35:24 then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.

Deuteronomy 19:11-12

Context
19:11 However, suppose a person hates someone else 1  and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, 2  and then flees to one of these cities. 19:12 The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger 3  to die.

Joshua 20:4-6

Context
20:4 The one who committed manslaughter 4  should escape to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and present his case to the leaders of that city. 5  They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there. 6  20:5 When the avenger of blood comes after him, they must not hand over to him the one who committed manslaughter, for he accidentally killed his fellow man without premeditation. 7  20:6 He must remain 8  in that city until his case is decided by the assembly 9  and the high priest dies. 10  Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.” 11 

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[19:11]  1 tn Heb “his neighbor.”

[19:11]  2 tn Heb “rises against him and strikes him fatally.”

[19:12]  3 tn The גֹאֵל הַדָּם (goel haddam, “avenger of blood”) would ordinarily be a member of the victim’s family who, after due process of law, was invited to initiate the process of execution (cf. Num 35:16-28). See R. Hubbard, NIDOTTE 1:789-94.

[20:4]  4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the one who accidentally kills another, cf. v. 2) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:4]  5 tn Heb “and speak into the ears of the elders of that city his words.”

[20:4]  6 tn Heb “and they should gather him into the city to themselves, give to him a place, and he will live with them.”

[20:5]  7 tn Heb “for without knowledge he killed his neighbor, and he was not hating him prior to that.”

[20:6]  8 tn Or “live.”

[20:6]  9 tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly for judgment.”

[20:6]  10 tn Heb “until the death of the high priest who is in those days.”

[20:6]  11 tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”



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