Numbers 35:24

24 the assembly is to judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

Numbers 35:24 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 35:24

Then the congregation
That is, the court of judicature, assembled together to hear and try this cause:

shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood;
shall hear what both have to say, and pass sentence:

according to these judgments;
these judicial laws and rules of judgment before delivered, exemplified in various cases.

Numbers 35:24 In-Context

22 "But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intent

23 or drops a stone without looking that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and wasn't trying to harm him,

24 the assembly is to judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

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

26 "If the one who kills someone ever goes outside the border of the city of refuge he fled to,