²² ‘But if he pushed the victim suddenly, not in enmity, or threw anything at him without malicious intent, ²³ or without seeing him hit him [accidentally] with a stone object that could kill him, and he died, and [the offender] was not his enemy nor intending to harm him, ²⁴ then the congregation shall judge between the offender and the blood avenger according to these ordinances. ²⁵ The congregation shall rescue the offender from the hand of the blood avenger and return him to his city of refuge, [the place] to which he had escaped; and he shall live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the sacred oil. ²⁶ But if at any time the one guilty of manslaughter comes outside the border of his city of refuge to which he fled, ²⁷ and the blood avenger finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills the offender, the blood avenger will not be guilty of murder, ²⁸ because the offender should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the high priest’s death the offender shall return to the land of his possession.