Numbers 35:6; Numbers 35:11; Numbers 35:12; Numbers 35:16; Numbers 35:17; Numbers 35:18; Numbers 35:19; Numbers 35:21; Numbers 35:25; Numbers 35:26; Numbers 35:27; Numbers 35:28; Numbers 35:30; Numbers 35:31

Numbers 35:6

6 “Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.

Numbers 35:11

11 select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee.

Numbers 35:12

12 They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly.

Numbers 35:16

16 “ ‘If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:17

17 Or if anyone is holding a stone and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:18

18 Or if anyone is holding a wooden object and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death.

Numbers 35:19

19 The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death.

Numbers 35:21

21 or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.

Numbers 35:25

25 The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:26

26 “ ‘But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled

Numbers 35:27

27 and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder.

Numbers 35:28

28 The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.

Numbers 35:30

30 “ ‘Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

Numbers 35:31

31 “ ‘Do not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer, who deserves to die. They are to be put to death.