Numbers 34-36

It took me about 15 minutes to read this passage. God passes on a very powerful teaching in 35:33. He says that murder is a spiritual pollutant, a contamination which sacrifices cannot clean. God makes it clear that the only atonement for a murder is the physical life of the one who comitted the murder. I believe in this harsh passage we see another picture of the substatutionary death of Jesus. He was sentensed to die by the punishment reserved for murderers. In doing so he could take the place of all murderers who will put their faith, and their lives, in him.
Stuart