Numbers 35:32
Good News Translation
If they have fled to a city of refuge, do not allow them to make a payment in order to return home before the death of the High Priest.

New Revised Standard Version
Nor shall you accept ransom for one who has fled to a city of refuge, enabling the fugitive to return to live in the land before the death of the high priest.

Contemporary English Version
And if you have been proven innocent of murder and are living in a Safe Town, you cannot pay to go back home; you must stay there until the high priest dies.

New American Bible
Nor will you accept compensation to allow one who has fled to a city of asylum to return to live in the land before the death of the high priest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities.

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The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities.

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

Galatians 2:21 I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Galatians 3:10-13,22 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: Cursed is every one that abideth, not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. . . .

Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation:

Context
Six Cities of Refuge
31You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith. 32The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities.33Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.…
Cross References
Numbers 35:31
You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.

Numbers 35:33
Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

2 Samuel 21:4
And the Gabaonites said to him: We have no contest about silver and gold, but against Saul and against his house: neither do we desire that any man be slain of Israel. And the king said to them: What will you then that I should do for you?

Numbers 35:31
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