11But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:
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And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death. …
Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)It was one of the precepts given to the sons of Noah that whoso sheddeth man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed , that is, by the avenger of blood, Gen. 9:6. Now here we have the law settled between blood and blood, between the blood of the murdered and the blood of the murderer, and effectual provision made, I. That the cities of refuge should be a protection to him that slew another casually…
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