This and the next two chapters contain enactments designed to protect human life, and to impress its sanctity on Israel.

In Deuteronomy 19:1…

Deuteronomy 19:1–13. THE CITIES OF REFUGE.

(See for more on this subject, Numbers 35:9 and following…

Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there ,
&c.] The Targum of Jonathan is,

``the wise …

Here is the law settled between the blood of the murdered and the blood of the murderer; provision is made that the cities of refuge should be a pr…