These cities are also deeply instructive when in our innocence, we may have offended someone and the sensitivity we are commanded to have toward them. Cities of refuge were not for the guilty. The elders of the city arranged for a hearing and if the person in question was found guilty, they were slain. But if the death was proven to be accidental, the one who caused the death was required to live in the city of refuge until the reining high priest died. Interesting isn't it. It doesn't say that if he is innocent, he is allowed to return home and the family members of the deceased person are forbade from exacting revenge. No, the innocent is expected to bear the burden of sensitivity for the deceased's family members.
Oh God, deliver us from our sense of entitlements!
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