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…

Thine eye shall not pity him
This is not said to the avenger of blood, who is not to be supposed to have any pity or…

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…