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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Numbers 35:31

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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35:31-32 The payment of a ransom (monetary compensation) to free a convicted murderer from execution was prohibited, since the death penalty was required (cp. 2 Sam 21:2-9). Similarly, the slayer in an involuntary manslaughter could not pay a ransom to get around his confinement in a city of refuge.
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