Deu 19:13 | TNotes | STEP | 19:13 Purge (literally burn ): The only way for the land to be free of culpability in matters of homicide was for blood vengeance to be enacted, which would burn out the impurity. See also 13:5 ; 17:12 .

‏ Deuteronomy 19:13

19:13 ^a Purge (literally burn): The only way for the land to be free of culpability in matters of homicide was for blood vengeance to be enacted, which would burn out the impurity. See also 13:5 ^b; 17:12 ^c.