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Nu 35:31 King James Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
No satisfaction - Rather, ransom (see Exo 21:30). The permission to demand pecuniary compensation for murders (expressly sanctioned by the Koran) undoubtedly mitigates, in practice, the system of private retaliation; but it does so by sacrificing the principle named in Num 35:12, Num 35:33.
 
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33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.
6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.