Word for the Week

Wait - you mean the law teaches us more than just the rules?

Week beginning: 20th December, 2015 | By Dominic Hughes | London

"…select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee.

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But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge… the avenger of blood may kill the accused … The accused must stay in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may he return to his own property."

Extracts from Numbers 35 (NIV, 1984 edition)

Wait – you mean the law teaches us more than just the rules?

The laws governing the cities of refuge are set out in a few different passages in the Bible.

To use the language of law school – if A killed B accidentally, A could flee to a city of ref