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Numbers 35:12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

12 These cities will serve you as places of asylum from the avenger of blood,[a] so that a homicide will not be put to death until tried before the community.

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  1. 35:12 The avenger of blood: Hebrew, go’el, often translated as “redeemer,” one who, as next of kin to the slain (2 Sm 14:7), and here, as executor of public justice, had the right and duty to take the life of the murderer; cf. Dt 19:6, 12; Jos 20:3, 5, 9.
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