You said, "The Lord our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

You must inscribe on the stones all the words of this law, making them clear."

So the Lord has uprooted them from their land in anger, wrath, and great rage and has deported them to another land, as is clear today."