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Numbers 35:27-34 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

27. and the blood avenger finds him outside the territory of the city of his refuge, and the blood avenger kills the killer, he will not be guilty of blood

28. because he must live in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the killer will return to the land of his property.

29. These things will be as a decree of justice for you for your generations in all your dwellings.

30. “ ‘If anyone kills a person, the killer will be put to death according to the testimony of witnesses, but someone cannot die on testimony of one person.

31. Also, you will not take a ransom payment for the life of a killer who is guilty of death; indeed, he must surely be put to death.

32. You will not take a ransom payment for the one that flees to the city of his refuge, so that he may return to live in the land before the death of the priest.

33. So you will not pollute the land in which you are; because blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is poured out on it except with the blood of the one who poured it out.

34. You will not defile the land on which you are living because I am living in the midst of it; I am Yahweh; I am living in the midst of the Israelites.’ ”

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