²⁶ But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

^{27 Ref} And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

^{28 Ref} Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.