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Deuteronomy 19:12

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then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

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Deuteronomy 19:12 in other translations

then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Deuteronomy 19:12 · World English Bible

Deuteronomy 19:12 in context

  1. 10that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
  2. 11But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally so that he dieth, and he flee into one of these cities;
  3. 12then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
  4. 13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
  5. 14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.