25. If they decide that you are innocent, you will be protected from the victim's relative and sent to stay in one of the Safe Towns until the high priest dies.
26. But if you ever leave the Safe Town
27. and are killed by the victim's relative, he cannot be punished for killing you.
28. You must stay inside the town until the high priest dies; only then can you go back home.
29. The community of Israel must always obey these laws.
30. Death is the penalty for murder. But no one accused of murder can be put to death unless there are at least two witnesses to the crime.
31. You cannot give someone money to escape the death penalty; you must pay with your own life!
32. And if you have been proved innocent of murder and are living in a Safe Town, you cannot pay to go back home; you must stay there until the high priest dies.
33-34. I, the Lord, live among you people of Israel, so your land must be kept pure. But when a murder takes place, blood pollutes the land, and it becomes unclean. If that happens, the murderer must be put to death, so the land will be clean again. Keep murder out of Israel!