Joshua 20:6

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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.’ ”

Cross References

Numbers 35:12

The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the slayer may not die until there is a trial before the congregation.

Hebrews 9:26

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself.