There was no place of safety for the guilty murderer, not even the altar of Yahweh. Thus, all superstitious notions connected with the right of san…

He that smiteth a man, so that he die. —Homicide had been broadly and generally forbidden in the sixth commandment. But s…

And if a man lie not in wait
For the life of another to take it away; or does not do it willingly, as the Septuagint…

God, who by His providence gives and maintains life, by His law protects it. A willful murderer shall be taken even from God's altar. But God provi…