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31 |Never accept a cash payment in exchange for the life of a convicted murderer who has been given the death penalty. Murderers must be put to death. 32 |An accused murderer who has fled to a city of refuge must never go back and live on his own land before the death of the chief priest. Don't accept a cash payment to allow him to do this. 33 |You must not pollute the land where you live. Murder is what pollutes the land. The land where a murder was committed can never make peace with the LORD except through the death of the murderer. 34 Never make the land where you and I live unclean. I, the LORD, live among the Israelites.| Numbers 35:31-34, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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