19. The blood avenger himself may put the murderer to death. When he finds him, he is to kill him.
20. “If anyone pushes someone maliciously, or throws anything at him with deadly intent,
21. or with hostility hits him with his fist so that he dies, the one hitting him is a murderer. The blood avenger may put the murderer to death when he finds him.
22. But if he pushes him suddenly or throws an object at him with no intent,
23. or without seeing him should drop a stone on him resulting in his death, but he was not his enemy and intended him no harm,
24. the assembly must judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood according to these regulations.
25. The assembly must protect the manslayer from the avenger of blood. The assembly should send him back to the city of refuge to which he had fled and he is to remain there until the death of the kohen gadol who was anointed with the holy oil.
26. “But if the manslayer should go outside the city limit of his city of refuge to which he had fled,
27. and should the blood avenger find him outside the city limits of the refuge city, the blood avenger may put him to death without being guilty of his blood.
28. The manslayer must stay within the limits of his city of refuge until the kohen gadol dies, and after the death of the kohen gadol , the manslayer may return to his property.
29. “These are to be statutes of justice for your generations in all your dwelling places.
30. Everyone killing anyone shall be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of more than one witness. No one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.