Thematic Bible: Those admitted to


Thematic Bible



The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

for the one who killed a person was supposed to live in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the one who has killed a person return to the land he possesses.


You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

the assembly is to judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.


"If the one who kills someone ever goes outside the border of the city of refuge he fled to, and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills him, the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,


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