CLV(i)
16 Yet if he smites him with an iron instrument and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death, yea death.
17 And if he smites him with a stone in his hand by which one may die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death, yea death.
18 Or if he smites him with a wooden instrument in his hand by which one may die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death, yea death.
19 The redeemer of blood, he shall put the murderer to death; when he comes upon him he shall put him to death.
20 And if he thrusts him in hatred or flings anything at him with malicious intent and he dies,
21 or he smites him in enmity with his hand and he dies, the smiter shall be put to death, yea death; he is a murderer. The redeemer of blood shall put the murderer to death when he comes upon him.
22 Yet if in an instant, with no enmity, he thrusts him or flings any article at him with no malicious intent,
23 or, when not seeing him, he causes any stone by which one may die to fall on him and he dies, yet he was not his enemy and was not seeking his evil,
24 then the congregation will judge between the smiter and the redeemer of blood by these judgments;
25 and the congregation will rescue the manslayer from the hand of the redeemer of blood, and the congregation will restore him to his city of asylum where he had fled. He will dwell in it until the death of the great priest, whom one anointed with the holy oil.
26 Yet if the manslayer goes forth, yea forth beyond the boundary of his city of asylum where he had fle.
27 and the redeemer of blood finds him outside the boundary of his city of asylum, and the redeemer of blood murders the manslayer, there is no bloodguilt on him,
28 for he should dwell in his city of asylum until the death of the great priest. Yet after the death of the great priest the manslayer may return to the land of his holding.
29 These will be for you a statute of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
30 Everyone smiting a soul to death, at the mouth of witnesses one shall murder the murderer. Yet a single witness shall not assert guilt against a soul to cause him to die.
31 Nor shall you take a sheltering ransom for the soul of the murderer, who stands condemned to die; for he shall be put to death, yea death.
32 And no sheltering ransom shall you take for one who had fled to his city of asylum only to return to dwell in the land before the death of the great priest.
33 You shall not pollute the land in which you are dwelling; for it is the blood that pollutes the land. As for the land, no shelter may be made for the blood which was shed on it save by the blood of him who shed it.
34 You shall not defile the land in which you are dwelling, in whose midst I am tabernacling, for I, Yahweh, am tabernacling in the midst of the sons of Israel.