Deuteronomy 4:42

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42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:


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By Alexander Payne

Verse 42. That when the soul through error has destroyed anything of spiritual life, it may take refuge in them and be blameless if the destruction of what is spiritual takes place from ignorance and not from premeditated evil in the heart; and that by embracing these doctrines his spiritual life might be preserved.