The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Numbers 35:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘If the one who kills someone ever goes outside the border of the city of refuge he fled to, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But if the slayer shall at any time come outside the limits of his city of refuge to which he had fled American Standard Version (1901) But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth, Common English Bible But if the killer ever goes outside the boundaries of the refuge city where he fled Catholic Public Domain Version If the one who has killed has been found beyond the limits of the cities which have been assigned to the exiled, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished, |
The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills him, the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,
If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his death will be his own fault, and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his death will be our fault.