Numbers 35:32-34

Common English Bible

³² You may not accept a ransom for someone who has fled to his refuge city so that he can return and live in the land before the priest’s death. ³³ You may not pollute the land in which you live, for the blood pollutes the land. There can be no recovery^[a] for the land from the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it. ³⁴ You will not make the land in which you live unclean, the land in the middle of which I reside, for I the Lord reside among the Israelites.