Numbers 35:25

Legacy Standard Bible

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but thinks up ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

Exodus 29:7

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

Leviticus 21:10

‘And the priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

Leviticus 4:3

if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him bring near to Yahweh a bull from the herd without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed.

Leviticus 8:12

Then he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to set him apart as holy.

Numbers 35:24

then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the blood avenger according to these legal judgments.

Numbers 35:26

But if the manslayer at any time goes beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he may flee,

Numbers 35:28

because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.

Joshua 20:6

And he shall live in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then the manslayer shall return and come to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.’ ”