Numbers 35:27

Catholic Public Domain Version

and he has been struck by him who is avenging blood, he who killed him shall not be harmed.

Cross References

Exodus 22:2

If a thief will have been discovered breaking into a house, or digging under it, and he has received a mortal wound, he who struck him down will not be guilty of blood.

Numbers 35:26

If the one who has killed has been found beyond the limits of the cities which have been assigned to the exiled,

Numbers 35:28

For the fugitive ought to have resided in the city, until the death of the high priest. Then, after he is dead, the one who has killed shall be returned to his own land.

Deuteronomy 19:10

So may innocent blood not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord your God will give you to possess, lest you be guilty of blood.

Deuteronomy 19:6

Otherwise, perhaps the near relative of him whose blood was shed, impelled by his grief, might pursue and apprehend him, unless the way is too long, and he might strike down the life of him who is not guilty unto death, since he had demonstrated that he had no prior hatred against him who was slain.