Numbers 35:32

32 You may not accept a ransom for someone who has fled to his refuge city so that he can return and live in the land before the priest's death.

Numbers 35:32 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 35:32

Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled
to the city of his refuge
Though for killing a man unawares:

that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the
priest;
the high priest; such a man's liberty was not to be purchased with money, nor even his life to be bought off, should he be taken without his city; a great ransom could not deliver him from the avenger, because he was guilty of this law, which so wisely and mercifully provided for him; and consequently guilty also of great ingratitude to God, as well as of a breach of his law, and of disrespect to his high priest, under whom he was protected.

Numbers 35:32 In-Context

30 Anyone who kills another will be executed on the evidence of witnesses. But one witness alone cannot testify against a person for a death sentence.

31 You may not accept a ransom for the life of a killer, who is guilty of a capital crime, for he must definitely be put to death.

32 You may not accept a ransom for someone who has fled to his refuge city so that he can return and live in the land before the priest's death.

33 You may not pollute the land in which you live, for the blood pollutes the land. There can be no recovery for the land from the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

34 You will not make the land in which you live unclean, the land in the middle of which I reside, for I the LORD reside among the Israelites.