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Senior adults confer soberly beside a city gate with an empty court before them.
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Deuteronomy 19:12

The Elders’ Responsibility

Prepare Refuge and Inquire Thoroughly · Deuteronomy 19

Story guide: Elders at a gate accompany their duty to hand the deliberate killer over to the avenger of blood.

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12then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and hand him over to the avenger of blood, and he shall die.

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