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An adult rests with empty hands on a bench inside a city gate while ordinary guards stand outside.
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Deuteronomy 19:4

Refuge for Unintentional Killing

Prepare Refuge and Inquire Thoroughly · Deuteronomy 19

Story guide: A man resting inside a gate accompanies the provision that an unintentional manslayer without prior hatred may flee there and live.

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4This is the provision for the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he strikes his neighbor without intent, and he did not hate him in times past.

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