1If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
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For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Care had been taken by some preceding laws for the vigorous and effectual persecution of a wilful murderer (Deut. 19:11-13), the putting of whom to death was the putting away of the guilt of blood from the land; but if this could not be done, the murderer not being discovered, they must not think that the land was in no danger of contracting any pollution because it was not through any neglect of…
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