The meaning is: Since taking another person’s life by any means whatever is murder and exposes the murderer to the penalty of retaliation, if the d…

And he shall abide in it until the death of the high priest. Although the death that had been caused was accidental, not …

And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand
of the avenger of blood
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To show plainly the abhorrence of murder, and to provide more effectively for the punishment of the murderer, the nearest relation of the deceased,…