For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his own country.
M51) A notable feature of the tribal system all over the world was the blood-feud, wiped out only by the death of the manslayer or by the payment of a sufficient recompense.
The same taboo is laid on the manslayer by the Bageshu of British East Africa.
Sometimes instead of being obliged to squeeze through the carcase of an ox the manslayeris merely smeared with the contents of its stomach.
An ox is slaughtered, and a hole having been made through the middle of the carcase with a spear, the manslayer has to force himself through the animal, while two men hold its stomach open.
The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before.
The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayernot die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.
However, the involuntary manslayer was not executed, but recommended to the "mercy" of the prince.
It is less criminal to kill a man than to serve bad food to a shepherd's dog; for the manslayer gets off with ninety stripes, whereas the bad master will receive two hundred.
The disapproval of the deed easily enhanced by the spiritual danger attending on it, as also by the inconvenient restrictions laid on the tabooed manslayer and the ceremonies of purification to which he is subject, p.
Homicide disapproved of because themanslayer gives trouble to his own people, p.
We have previously noticed the rites of purification which a manslayer has to undergo in order to get rid of the blood-pollution.
A manslayer not only causes a loss to the group which he deprives of a member, but he also may give trouble to his own people, who, in consequence, disapprove of his act.
The magnitude of the crime may depend not only on the rank of the victim, but on the rank of the manslayeras well, pp.
The magnitude of the crime, however, may depend not only on the rank of the victim, but on the rank of the manslayer as well.
All that the manslayer received in the city was safety; but from Christ there is a constant flow of higher and holier blessings.
The course to be followed by the involuntary manslayer was very minutely prescribed.
As it was, the involuntary manslayer had thus to undergo a considerable penalty.
It is a study in eccentric human relations--the relations between the captain and the manslayer who comes naked out of the seas as if from nowhere one tropical night, and is huddled away with his secrets in the captain's cabin.
The restrictions laid upon the victorious manslayerare unusually frequent and are mostly of a serious nature.
Among the Toaripi-or Motumotu-tribes in New Guinea a manslayer must not approach his wife and must not touch his food with his fingers.
The nearest city could always be reached by the manslayer in half a day.
In them, and in them only, was the manslayer safe from the avenger of blood.
If you read the Bible account, you will find that the manslayer had his liberty restored to him upon the death of the High Priest.
In Canaan of old, the manslayerwas in danger of his life, whether he had killed one or several.
He made the way as plain as possible to the manslayer of old.
Far, far more so than the manslayer had of old in his.
The manslayer of old required to be within the refuge-city.
The temporary restrictions laid on a manslayer were probably dictated by a fear of his victim's ghost.
The ceremony of consecrating a manslayer was elaborate.
