Numbers 35:25
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
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Gill's Exposition
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood,.... Put him under the care of proper persons, to conduct him to one of the cities of refuge, or put him in the…
The sense is: Inasmuch as to take another man’s life by any means whatsoever is murder, and exposes the murderer to the penalty of retaliation; so, if the deed is done in hostility, it is in truth…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
shall restore him It is not stated where the congregation had taken him for judgement, but it was presumably to his own city. It is not, however, impossible that -the congregation" means, as elsewhere…
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