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.
31. “You are not to accept ransom for the life of a murderer. He deserves to die and he is to die.
32. Do not receive a ransom for one who has fled to his city of refuge, allowing him to return to his land before the kohen gadol ’s death.
33. You are not to pollute the land in which you are. Blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for land polluted by bloodshed except by the blood of the one who sheds it.
34. You are not to defile the land where you live, where I dwell, for I dwell among Bnei-Yisrael.”