Numbers 35:24 - Easy To Read Version

If that happens, then the community must decide what to do. The community’s court must decide if a member of the dead man’s family [388] can kill that person.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

American Standard Version (1901)

then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

Common English Bible

then the community must come to a verdict between the killer and the close relative in accordance with these case laws.

Catholic Public Domain Version

and this has been proven in the hearing of the people, and the questions have been aired, between the one who struck and the close relative,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:

Numbers 35:24 Tagairtí Cros

Numbers 35:12

That person will be safe from anyone from the dead man’s family that wants to get even. That person will be safe until he is judged in court.

Numbers 35:23

Or a person might throw a rock. And that rock might fall on someone that person didn’t see and the rock might kill that person. That person didn’t plan to kill anyone. That person didn’t hate the person he killed—it was only an accident.

Numbers 35:25

If the community decides to protect the killer from the dead man’s family, then the community must take him back to his city of safety. And the killer must stay there until the official high priest [389] dies.

Joshua 20:6

That person should stay in the city until he has been judged by the court in that city. And he should stay in that city until the time that the high priest dies. Then he can go back to his own home in the town he ran away from.”