28Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.
29These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.
30Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.
31Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.
32And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest.
33So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
34Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.
