Numbers 35:29

"And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death. And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I Jehovah dwell in the midst of the children of Israel."

It is not possible to imagine any stronger language showing God's disapproval of murder and setting forth his just and eternal decree that all murderers shall be put to death; in fact the land polluted by murder can be cleansed only by the blood of the murderer. One may only pity the blind folly of the world's current crop of "wise (?) men," who tamper with the judicial system perpetually in order to weight the machinery of the law and of the courts of justice in favor of violent killers! The disintegration of all order into ultimate chaos will be the eventual result of this, as the prophecies plainly teach.

The guidelines laid down concerning such cases include such things as requiring more than one witness, denying the right of redemption with money for any murderer, or for any person who had fled to a city of refuge. The full time until the death of the high priest was commanded to be observed for such refugees.