48 towns will be Levite towns. 6 of the Levite towns will be cities of refuge. A city of refuge is where people who accidentally killed someone can be protected from revenge from a relative of the victim. He must stay there until the death of the high priest.
Afterwards, we get a recounting of the criminal justice system - murder gets you death. The chapter ended with some interesting things:
murder pollutes the land and only the execution of the murderer can reverse the pollution of the land caused by murder. This might seem outlandish, but I think it is talking about things on a spiritual level. Plus, back in the Cain and Able story, the blood of Abel cried out to God from the ground (Genesis 4:10).
There must be at least two witnesses in capital murder trials.
No one can be put to death on the testimony of one person.
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