Numbers 35:29-31

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁹ These things will be a legal statute for you throughout your generations wherever you live.

³⁰ Everyone who has taken someone’s life is to be put to death as a murderer on the testimony of witnesses, but no one is to die on the testimony of only one witness.

³¹ You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, because he must certainly be put to death.