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   After the manslayer had been received into the city of refuge,
   the avenger of blood could only act as prosecutor; and the
   magistrates, in the presence of the people, were appointed to
   decide the cause according to the rules here laid down.
   Probably the accused person was tried at or near the place
   where the deceased had been slain, and where evidence could
   most easily be brought:  and in case he was acquitted by the
   decision of the judges, and with the approbation of the
   people, he was conveyed back to the city of refuge, where he
   was protected as a kind of prisoner at large, till the death
   of the high priest; when the public loss, and the grief
   occasioned by it, might be supposed to swallow up all personal
   regrets and resentments:  and then he was permitted to return
   to his house and estate.  But if, in the mean while, he
   ventured to leave the city, and the avenger met him and slew
   him, he was supposed to merit his doom by thus neglecting the
   appointment of God for his preservation, and the avenger must
   not be punished.  This shews that in other cases, if the
   avenger slew an innocent man on surmise, he was liable to the
   punishment of a murderer; but if, by the testimony of two
   credible witnesses, the man who had fled to the city of refuge
   was adjudged guilty, he must without fail be put to death.

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