It is important to note the injunction against allowing a murderer to pay a fine for his murder. The only acceptable payment was the blood of the murderer. Also, the murderer could only be killed by those who had the right if revenge for the murdered.
Before now I never realized that after the people chose fear and 40 years in the wilderness they then changed their minds and went to war against the counsel of God so that almost immediately after God had declared that the whole generation who had feared to take their inheritance would perish before they entered the land those bet men began to die in battle.
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