Numbers 35:31-34 Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall be surely put to death.

EJ2000⁽ⁱ⁾ ³¹ Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall be surely put to death. ³² And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. ³³ So ye shall not pollute the land where ye are, for this blood shall defile the land; and the land cannot be reconciled of the blood that is shed therein except by the blood of the one that shed it. ³⁴ Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the sons of Israel.