Numbers 35:12

And they shall be unto you cities of refuge from the avenger,.... Or near kinsman; for as the right of redemption of an estate that was mortgaged belonged to such an one, so of revenging the blood of…

The avenger - Hebrew גאל gā'al, a term of which the original import is uncertain. The very obscurity of its etymology testifies to the antiquity of the office which it denotes. That office rested on…

Until he stand before the congregation in judgment - So one of these cities was not a perpetual asylum; It was only a pro tempore refuge, till the case could be fairly examined by the magistrates in…

the avenger Heb. gô"çl, the nearest representative of the family of the slain man. Perhaps (with LXX.) we should read -the avenger of blood," as in Num 35:35; Num 35:35. On the gô"çland his duties see…