Numbers 35:25

New American Bible - revised edition

The community will deliver the homicide from the avenger of blood and the community will return the homicide to the city of asylum where the latter had fled; and the individual will stay there until the death of the high priest who has been anointed with sacred oil.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must indeed die; we are then like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet, though God does not bring back to life, he does devise means so as not to banish anyone from him.

Exodus 29:7

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

Leviticus 21:10

The most exalted of the priests, upon whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the special vestments, shall not dishevel his hair or rend his garments,

Leviticus 4:3

If it is the anointed priest who thus does wrong and thereby makes the people guilty, he shall offer to the Lord an unblemished bull of the herd as a purification offering for the wrong he committed.

Leviticus 8:12

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

Numbers 35:24

then the community will judge between the assailant and the avenger of blood in accordance with these norms.

Numbers 35:26

If the homicide leaves at all the bounds of the city of asylum to which flight had been made,

Numbers 35:28

for the homicide was required to stay in the city of asylum until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the homicide return to the land of the homicide’s possession.

Joshua 20:6

Once he has stood judgment before the community, he shall live on in that city until the death of the high priest who is in office at the time. Then the killer may return home to the city from where he originally fled. List of Cities.