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Entering the Promised Land – Numbers E9

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Are These Cities of Refuge From the Avenger?

Cities will become cities of refuge or asylum, so that the person who has killed some one by accident can flee there. From there's no city that's going to keep you safe from the avengers. Assumed cultural practice here is that brothers can bring about blood vengeance on someone who takes the life of a family member. That's the assumed practice underneath this here. And so you can se how, it doesn't take much to imagine how these things can escalate,. It's just a small, localized version of how cities go to war with each other and nationsGo to war withEach othert right? Yes.

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