Deuteronomy 19:12 (WEB)
then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
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“For the wont of the old law was to avenge itself by the vengeance of the glaive, and to pluck out “eye for eye,” and to inflict retaliatory revenge for injury.” — editor's note: Comp. Ex. xxi. 24, 25; Lev. xxiv. 17–22; Deut. xix. 11–21; Matt. v. 38.
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