⁴ “This is the provision for ^(A)the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbour unintentionally without having hated him in the past— ⁵ as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbour to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbour so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,

²² “But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him ^(A)without lying in wait ²³ or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm, ²⁴ then ^(B)the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and ^(C)the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules. ²⁵ And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it ^(D)until the death of the high priest ^(E)who was anointed with the holy oil.