Numbers 35:19–27

¹⁹The blood avenger himself will put the killer to death; he must put him to death when meeting him. ²⁰If he shoves him in hatred, or he throws something at him with intention, and he dies, ²¹or if he hits him in hostility with his hand, and he dies, the one that struck him will put to death the killer when meeting him.

²²“ ‘Or if in an instant he shoved him, not in hostility, or threw something at him without intention, ²³or with any stone, without seeing it dropped on him so that he dies, while he was not seeking his injury, ²⁴then the community will judge between the striker and between the blood avenger according to these ordinances. ²⁵The community will deliver the killer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the community will restore him to the city of his refuge to which he fled; and he will live there in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil. ²⁶But if the killer surely goes out of the territory of the city of his refuge to which he fled, ²⁷and the blood avenger finds him outside the territory of the city of his refuge, and the blood avenger kills the killer, he will not be guilty of blood^g