Numbers 35:25

Tree of Life Version

The assembly must protect the manslayer from the avenger of blood. The assembly should send him back to the city of refuge to which he had fled and he is to remain there until the death of the kohen gadol who was anointed with the holy oil.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will all surely die and be like water spilt on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life but rather, He devises plans so that a banished person may not remain an outcast from Him.

Exodus 29:7

Then you are to take the anointing oil, pour it upon his head and anoint him.

Leviticus 21:10

“He who is the kohen gadol among his brothers, upon whose head the anointing oil is poured and is consecrated to put on the garments, is not to let the hair of his head hang loose or tear his clothes,

Leviticus 4:3

—or if the anointed kohen sins so as to bring guilt on the people—then let him offer for his sin which he has committed, a young bull without blemish to Adonai for a sin offering.

Leviticus 8:12

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

Numbers 35:24

the assembly must judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood according to these regulations.

Numbers 35:26

“But if the manslayer should go outside the city limit of his city of refuge to which he had fled,

Numbers 35:28

The manslayer must stay within the limits of his city of refuge until the kohen gadol dies, and after the death of the kohen gadol , the manslayer may return to his property.

Joshua 20:6

So he will stay in that city until he can stand trial before the congregation, or until the death of the kohen gadol in those days. Then the manslayer may return to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he had fled.’”