Numbers 35:24-26

Complete Jewish Bible

²⁴ Then the community is to judge between the one who struck him and the next-of-kin avenger in accordance with these rules; ²⁵ and the community is to save the killer from the next-of-kin avenger. The community is to return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he is to live there until the cohen hagadol, who was anointed with the holy oil, dies. ²⁶ But if the killer ever goes beyond the limits of the city of refuge he fled to,