Tuesday – Pentateuch

Reading – Numbers 35-36

Highlight Verse:

“designate cities of refuge to which people can flee if they have killed someone accidentally.”
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭35‬:‭11‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Imagine a city to which anyone who claims they are innocent of murder (despite killing someone) could take refuge in.

I can just imagine the outcry from the NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) crowd.

Sounds crazy to us today, but during a time when justice was handed out without any judicial process,

this was an unprecedented show of fairness.

In fact, this system forms some of the earliest roots for our modern justice system.

What provisions for justice did today’s reading point out to you?
How would you feel if you accidentally killed someone in this system?
What if you were the next of kin to a victim?