Numbers 35:25
Good News Translation
You are guilty only of manslaughter, and the community is to rescue you from the dead person's relative, and they are to return you to the city of refuge to which you had escaped. You must live there until the death of the man who is then High Priest.

New Revised Standard Version
and the congregation shall rescue the slayer from the avenger of blood. Then the congregation shall send the slayer back to the original city of refuge. The slayer shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Contemporary English Version
If they decide that you are innocent, you will be protected from the victim's relative and sent to stay in one of the Safe Towns until the high priest dies.

New American Bible
The community will deliver the homicide from the avenger of blood and the community will return the homicide to the city of asylum where the latter had fled; and the individual will stay there until the death of the high priest who has been anointed with sacred oil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

abide in it

Numbers 35:28 For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his own country.

Joshua 20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand before judgment to give an account of his fact, and till the death of the high priest, who shall be at that time: then shall the manslayer return, and go into his own city and house from whence he fled.

Romans 3:24-26 Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, . . .

Ephesians 2:16-18 And might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, killing the enmities in himself. . . .

Hebrews 4:14-16 Having therefore a great high priest that hath passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God: let us hold fast our confession. . . .

Hebrews 7:25-28 Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by him; always living to make intercession for us. . . .

Hebrews 9:12-15 Neither by the blood of goats or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the Holies, having obtained eternal redemption. . . .

Hebrews 10:19-22 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ: . . .

anointed

Exodus 29:7 And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and by this rite shall he be consecrated.

Leviticus 4:3 If the priest that is anointed shall sin, making the people to offend, he shall offer to the Lord for his sin a calf without blemish.

Leviticus 8:12 And he poured it upon Aaron's head: and he anointed and consecrated him.

Leviticus 21:10 The high priest, that is to say, the priest who is the greatest among his brethren, upon whose head the oil of unction hath been poured; and whose hands have been consecrated for the priesthood; and who hath been vested with the holy vestments. He shall not uncover his head: he shall not rend his garments.

Context
Six Cities of Refuge
24And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin: 25The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.26If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished,…
Cross References
Exodus 29:7
And thou shalt pour the oil of unction upon his head: and by this rite shall he be consecrated.

Numbers 35:24
And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:

Numbers 35:26
If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished,

2 Samuel 14:14
We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

Numbers 35:24
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