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then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
- Numbers 35:24
But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled
- Numbers 35:26
because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.
- Numbers 35:28
If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.
- Numbers 35:30
You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:31
Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
- Numbers 35:33
At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
- Deuteronomy 1:16
Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
- Deuteronomy 1:17
to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
- Deuteronomy 4:42
You shall not murder.
- Deuteronomy 5:17
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- Deuteronomy 5:20
But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
- Deuteronomy 7:10