Numbers 35:25

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

and the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, to which he had 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

We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.

Exodus 29:7

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

Leviticus 21:10

“The priest who is chief among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured, and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose, nor rend his clothes;

Leviticus 4:3

if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then let him offer for the sin which he has committed a young bull without blemish to the Lord for a sin offering.

Leviticus 8:12

And 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 manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these ordinances;

Numbers 35:26

But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the bounds of his city of refuge to which he fled,

Numbers 35:28

For the man must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.

Joshua 20:6

And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time: then the slayer may go again to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’ ”