Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheri
The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel
Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitiv
The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anyt
until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring
the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.