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# General Information:
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Moses is still speaking to the people of Israel.
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# the avenger of blood
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Here "blood" represents the person who was killed. An "avenger of blood" is a close relative of the person who was killed. This relative is responsible for punishing the murderer. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# the one who took a life
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This is an idiom. Alternate translation: "the one who killed the other person" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
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# in the heat of his anger
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Someone being very angry is spoken of as if anger were something that could become hot. Alternate translation: "and being very angry" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# strike him and kill him
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"And the blood avenger strikes and kills the one who had killed the other person"
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# though that man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past
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"though that man did not deserve to die since he accidentally killed the other person and was not his enemy, and he had not planned to hurt the man"
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