Numbers 35:15-28 These six cities shall be a refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger, and for anyone who stays among them, so that everyone who kills any person through error may flee there.

MKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ These six cities shall be a refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger, and for anyone who stays among them, so that everyone who kills any person through error may flee there. ¹⁶ And if he strikes him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he strikes him by throwing a stone, with which he may die, and if he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸ Or if he strikes him with a hand weapon of wood, with which he may die, and if he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁹ The revenger of blood himself shall kill the murderer. When he meets him, he shall kill him. ²⁰ And if he stabs him from hatred, or hurls at him by lying in wait, so that he dies, ²¹ or in hatred strikes him with his hand so that he dies, he who struck him shall surely he put to death. He is a murderer. The revenger of blood will kill the murderer when he meets him. ²² But if he thrusts him suddenly without hatred, or has thrown something on him without lying in wait, ²³ or with any stone with which a man may die if he does not see, and throws it upon him so that he dies, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm, ²⁴ then the congregation shall judge between the one who kills and the revenger of blood according to these judgments. ²⁵ And the congregation shall deliver the one who kills out of the hand of the revenger of blood. And the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he had fled. And he shall stay in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil. ²⁶ But if the one who killed shall at any time come outside the border of the city of his refuge to which he had fled, ²⁷ and if the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and if the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood, ²⁸ because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the one who killed shall return to the land of his possession.