Numbers 35:32-34

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³² The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities.

³³ Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

³⁴ And thus shall your possession he cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.