²⁴ If that happens, the community must decide what to do. The court must decide if a member of the dead person’s family can kill you. ²⁵ If the community decides to protect you from the dead person’s family, the community must take you back to your city of safety. You must stay there until the official high priest^[a] dies.

^26-27 “You must never go outside the limits of your city of safety. If you do and if a member of the dead person’s family catches you and kills you, that family member will not be guilty of murder.