Numbers 35:24

24 If that happens, the community must judge between the relative of the dead person and the killer, according to these rules.

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 a person might suddenly shove someone, and not from hatred. Or a person might accidentally throw something and hit someone.

23 Or a person might drop a rock on someone he couldn't see and kill that person. There was no plan to hurt anyone and no hatred for the one who was killed.

24 If that happens, the community must judge between the relative of the dead person and the killer, according to these rules.

25 They must protect the killer from the dead person's relative, sending the killer back to the original city of safety, to stay there until the high priest dies (the high priest had the holy oil poured on him).

26 "'Such a person must never go outside the limits of the city of safety.