Numbers 35:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood. Then the congregation shall send the slayer back to the original city of refuge. The slayer shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

Exodus 29:7

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

Leviticus 21:10

“The priest who is exalted above his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the vestments, shall not dishevel his hair nor tear his vestments.

Leviticus 4:3

“If it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull of the herd as a purification offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 8:12

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

Numbers 35:24

then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances,

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 to his property.

Joshua 20:6

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.”