Numbers 35:25 - Easy To Read Version

^25-27 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.

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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 all die some day. We will be like water that is spilled on the ground. No person can gather this water back from the ground. You know God forgives people. God made plans for people who are forced to run away for safety—God doesn’t force them to run away from him!

Exodus 29:7

Take the anointing oil [268] and pour it on Aaron’s head. This will show that Aaron is chosen for this work.

Leviticus 21:10

“The high priest was chosen from among his brothers. The anointing oil [377] was poured on his head. In this way, he was chosen for the special job of being high priest. He was chosen to wear the special clothes. {So he must not do things to show his sadness in public.} He must not let his hair grow wild. He must not tear his clothes.

Leviticus 4:3

“If the anointed priest [23] makes a mistake in a way that leaves the people guilty for their sin, then the priest must make an offering to the Lord for his sin. The priest must offer a young bull that has nothing wrong with it. He must offer the young bull to the Lord as a sin offering.

Leviticus 8:12

Then Moses poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head. In this way, he made Aaron holy.

Numbers 35:24

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.

Numbers 35:28

The person who accidentally killed someone must stay in his city of safety until the high priest dies. After the high priest dies, that person can go back to his own land.

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.”