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The avenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: whensoever he shall meet him he shall slay him.
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And if he should thrust him through enmity, or cast any thing upon him from an ambuscade, and the man should die,
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or if he have smitten him with his hand through anger, and the man should die, let the man that smote him be put to death by all means, he is a murderer: let the murderer by all means be put to death: the avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.
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But if he should thrust him suddenly, not through enmity, or cast any thing upon him, not from an ambuscade,
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or with any stone, whereby a man may die, unawares, and it should fall upon him, and he should die, but he was not his enemy, nor sought to hurt him;
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then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood, according to these judgments.
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And the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he fled for refuge; and he shall dwell there till the death of the high-priest, whom they anointed with the holy oil.
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But if the slayer should in any wise go out beyond the bounds of the city whither he fled for refuge,
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and the avenger of blood should find him without the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood should kill the slayer, he is not guilty.
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For he ought to have remained in the city of refuge till the high-priest died; and after the death of the high-priest the slayer shall return to the land of his possession.
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And these things shall be to you for an ordinance of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings.