Numbers 35:24

24 then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the kinsman avenger {Heb. redeemer} of blood according to these laws.

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 he thrusts him suddenly without enmity, or has cast upon him any thing without laying in wait,

23 or with any stone, with which a man may die, seeing him not and casts it upon him that he dies, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm,

24 then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the kinsman avenger {Heb. redeemer} of blood according to these laws.

25 And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the kinsman avenger {Heb. redeemer} of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, where he has fled, and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

26 But if the manslayer shall at any time come outside the border of the city of his refuge where he has fled,