Numbers 35:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ and the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood. Then the congregation shall send the slayer back to the original city of refuge. The slayer shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood and restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall live in it until the high priest dies, who was anointed with the sacred oil.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The community will protect the killer from the hand of the close relative and return him to the refuge city where he fled. He will live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ then the innocent one shall be freed from the hand of the revenger, and he shall be returned by this judgment into the city to which he had fled, and he shall stay there until the high priest, who has been anointed with the holy oil, dies.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled: and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:25 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

Exodus 29:7

You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

Leviticus 21:10

“The priest who is exalted above his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the vestments, shall not dishevel his hair nor tear his vestments.

Leviticus 4:3

“If it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull of the herd as a purification offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 8:12

He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to consecrate him.

Numbers 35:24

then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances,

Numbers 35:26

But if the slayer shall at any time go outside the bounds of the original city of refuge

Numbers 35:28

For the slayer must remain in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the slayer may return to his property.

Joshua 20:6

The slayer shall remain in that city until there is a trial before the congregation, until the death of the one who is high priest at the time; then the slayer may return home, to the town in which the deed was done.”