Numbers 35:25 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁵ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ and the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood and restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall live in it until the high priest dies, who was anointed with the sacred oil.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Common English Bible

²⁵ The community will protect the killer from the hand of the close relative and return him to the refuge city where he fled. He will live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ then the innocent one shall be freed from the hand of the revenger, and he shall be returned by this judgment into the city to which he had fled, and he shall stay there until the high priest, who has been anointed with the holy oil, dies.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled: and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:25 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 14:14

We will certainly die  and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; he would devise plans so that the one banished from him does not remain banished.

Exodus 29:7

Take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint  him.

Leviticus 21:10

‘The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained  to wear the clothes, must not dishevel his hair  or tear his clothes.

Leviticus 4:3

‘If the anointed priest  sins, bringing guilt  on the people, he is to present to the Lord a young, unblemished  bull as a sin  offering  for the sin he has committed.

Leviticus 8:12

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

Numbers 35:24

the assembly is to judge between the person who kills someone and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

Numbers 35:26

‘If the one who kills someone ever goes outside the border of the city of refuge he fled to,

Numbers 35:28

for the one who killed a person was supposed to live in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the one who has killed a person return to the land he possesses.

Joshua 20:6

He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time.  Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to his own city from which he fled.’