Numbers 35:24

24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

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 shall thrust him suddenly without enmity, or shall have cast upon him any thing without laying in wait,

23 Or with any stone, by which a man may die, seeing [him] not, and shall cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was] not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled: and he shall abide in it to the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he had fled;