Numbers 35:19–27

¹⁹‘The blood avenger himself shall put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him.

²⁰‘^aAnd if he pushed him of hatred or threw something at him ^blying in wait and as a result he died,

²¹or if he struck him down with his hand in enmity, and as a result he died, the one who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer; the blood avenger shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

²²‘^aBut if he pushed him suddenly without enmity or threw something at him without lying in wait,

²³or with any stone—by which one might die, yet without seeing—and it fell upon him, and he died, but he was not his enemy nor seeking his injury,

²⁴then ^athe congregation shall judge between the ¹slayer and the blood avenger according to these legal judgments.

²⁵‘And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

²⁶‘But if the manslayer at any time goes beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he may flee,

²⁷and the blood avenger finds him outside the border of his city of refuge, and the blood avenger kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood