25. ⌊If you are innocent,⌋ the community must protect you from that relative. They must take you back to the city of refuge you fled to. You must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
26. “But don’t go outside the city of refuge you fled to.
27. If the relative who can avenge the death finds you outside the city of refuge and kills you, the relative is not guilty of murder.
28. Accused murderers must stay in their city of refuge until the death of the high priest. They may go back to their own property only after his death.
29. “These will be the rules for future generations wherever you live.
30. “Whoever kills another person will be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of more than one witness. No one can be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
31. “Never accept a cash payment in exchange for the life of a convicted murderer who has been given the death penalty. Murderers must be put to death.
32. “An accused murderer who has fled to a city of refuge must never go back and live on his own land before the death of the high priest. Don’t accept a cash payment to allow him to do this.