Numbers 35:24

Good News Translation

In such cases the community shall judge in your favor and not in favor of the dead person's relative who is seeking revenge.

Cross References

Numbers 35:12

There you will be safe from the dead person's relative who seeks revenge. No one accused of manslaughter is to be put to death without a public trial.

Numbers 35:23

Or suppose that, without looking, you throw a stone that kills someone whom you did not intend to hurt and who was not your enemy.

Numbers 35:25

You are guilty only of manslaughter, and the community is to rescue you from the dead person's relative, and they are to return you to the city of refuge to which you had escaped. You must live there until the death of the man who is then High Priest.

Joshua 20:6

You may stay in the city until you have received a public trial and until the death of the man who is then the High Priest. Then you may go back home to your own town, from which you had run away.”