soon as he findeth him. But and if he pushed him by chance and not of
hate or cast at him with any manner of thing and not of laying of wait:
or cast any manner of stone at him that he die therewith, and saw him
not: And he cast it upon him and he died, but was not his enemy,
neither sought him any harm: Then the congregation shall judge between
the slayer and the executer of blood in such cases. And the
congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the judge of
blood, and shall restore him again unto the franchised city, whither he
was fled. And he shall bide there unto the death of the high priest
which was anointed with holy oil. But and if he came without the
borders of his privileged city whither he was fled, if the blood
avenger find him without the borders of his free town, he shall slay
the murderer and be guiltless, because he should have bidden in his
free town until the death of the high priest, and after the death of
the high priest, he shall return again unto the land of his possession.
And this shall be an ordinance and a law unto you, among your children
after you in all your habitations. Whosoever slayeth, shall be slain at
the mouth of witnesses. For one witness shall not answer against one
person to put him to death. Moreover ye shall take none amends for the
life of the murderer which is worthy to die: But he shall be put to
death. Also ye shall take none atonement for him that is fled to a free
city, that he should come again and dwell in the land before the death
of the high priest. And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are
in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be
cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that
shed it. Defile not therefore the land which ye inhabit, and in the
midst of which I also dwell, for I am, the LORD which dwell among the
children of Israel.
Chapter .xxxvi.
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