18. ‘Or if he has smitten him with a wooden instrument that could kill, and he does die, he is a murderer. The murderer shall certainly be put to death.
19. ‘The revenger of blood himself puts the murderer to death. When he meets him, he puts him to death.
20. ‘And if he thrusts him through in hatred, or throws an object at him while lying in wait, so that he dies,
21. or in enmity he smites him with his hand so that he dies, the one who smote him shall certainly be put to death, for he is a murderer. The revenger of blood puts the murderer to death when he meets him.
22. ‘But if he pushes him suddenly without enmity, or throws an object at him without lying in wait,
23. or uses a stone, by which a man could die, throwing it at him without seeing him, so that he dies, while he was not his enemy or seeking his harm,
24. then the congregation shall judge between him who killed someone and the revenger of blood, according to these right-rulings.
25. ‘And the congregation shall rescue the one who killed someone from the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge where he had fled, and he shall remain there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the set-apart oil.
26. ‘But if the one who killed someone at any time goes outside the limits of the city of refuge where he fled,
27. and the revenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the revenger of blood kills him who killed someone, he is not guilty of blood,
28. because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest he who killed someone is to return to the land of his possession.
29. ‘And these shall be for a law of right-ruling to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
30. ‘Whoever kills someone has to be put to death as a murderer by the mouth of witnesses, but only one witness does not bear witness against someone to die.
31. ‘And take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.
32. ‘And take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge to return to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.
33. ‘And do not profane the land where you are, for blood profanes the land, and the land is not pardoned for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
34. ‘And do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell, for I, יהוה, am dwelling in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl.’ ”