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# General Information:
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The chapter describes a famous law, often called the "law of retaliation". It is said, an "eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot". This does not mean a person who causes another person to lose their eye must have their own eye removed as punishment. Instead, it is about limiting the punishment or the ability of a person to retaliate. Also, this chapter describes the establishment of special cities to protect those fleeing from revenge killings.
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# When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations
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Yahweh destroying the people who live in Canaan is spoken of as if he were cutting them off, as one would cut a piece of cloth or cut a branch from a tree.
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# those whose land Yahweh your God is giving you
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"those nations who were living in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you"
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# come after them
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"possess the land after those nations are gone"
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