Numbers 35:15-28 They shall be a refuge for the children of Israel, and for the proselyte, and the sojourner among you. These cities are to be places of refuge, to which every one may flee who hath smitten a person unawares.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ They shall be a refuge for the children of Israel, and for the proselyte, and the sojourner among you. These cities are to be places of refuge, to which every one may flee who hath smitten a person unawares. ¹⁶ But if he hath smitten him with an instrument of iron, and he die, he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he hath smitten him with a stone out of his hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. ¹⁸ And if he hath smitten him with any instrument of wood out of his hand, by which he might be killed, and he die; he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. ¹⁹ The avenger of blood himself shall kill him. When he meeteth him he shall slay him. ²⁰ And if, through hatred, he hath pushed him down, or thrown at him from ambush, any instrument whatever, and he die; ²¹ or if on account of an old grudge he hath smitten him with his hand, and he die; let him who smote be put to death: he is a murderer; let the murderer be put to death. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meeteth him. ²² But if on a sudden, not through malice aforethought, he hath pushed him down, or thrown any instrument at him, not from ambush, ²³ nor with any stone by which he might be killed, or not seeing him, and it light upon him, and he die, and he was not his enemy, nor seeking to do him any injury, ²⁴ the congregation shall judge between him who smote, and the avenger of blood, according to these rules of decision; ²⁵ and the congregation shall deliver the slayer from the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he fled; and he shall dwell there, till the death of the high priest, whom they have anointed with holy oil. ²⁶ And if the manslayer go out of the bounds of the city of his refuge to which he fled, ²⁷ and the avenger of blood find him out of the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the slayer, he is not guilty of death. ²⁸ For he should have remained in the city of refuge till the death of the high priest. After the death of the high priest the slayer may return to the land of his possession.