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An anonymous person approaches an open city gate.
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Deuteronomy 4:42

Refuge for Unintentional Killing

Remember Horeb, Guard the Covenant · Deuteronomy 4

Story guide: This legal essay illustrates refuge for an unintentional manslayer; it invents no killing incident or named fugitive.

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42so that a manslayer who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without knowledge, and was not hating him previously, may flee there to one of these cities and live.

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