Numbers 35:27

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and is found by the avenger of blood outside the bounds of the city of refuge, and is killed by the avenger, no bloodguilt shall be incurred.

Cross References

Exodus 22:2

(4) When the animal, whether ox or donkey or sheep, is found alive in the thief's possession, the thief shall pay double.

Numbers 35:26

But if the slayer shall at any time go outside the bounds of the original city of refuge,

Numbers 35:28

For the slayer must remain in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the slayer may return home.

Deuteronomy 19:10

so that the blood of an innocent person may not be shed in the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.

Deuteronomy 19:6

But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before.