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Numbers 35:25

“The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.”

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²³Or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,

²⁴Then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

²⁵The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

²⁶But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled

²⁷And the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,

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Numbers 35:25

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