Numbers 35:29 (BSB)

This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.

From Numbers 35. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 35:29

• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 35:29: So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you,.... A judicial law, according to which they were to proceed in all the above cases: throughout your generations in all your dwellings; throughout all ages, as long as they dwelt in the land of Canaan, even unto the times of the Messiah, in whom the things figured hereby had their accomplishment: the cities...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 35:29: these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations--The law of the blood-avenger, as thus established by divine authority, was a vast improvement on the ancient practice of Goelism. By the appointment of cities of refuge, the manslayer was saved, in the meantime, from the blind and impetuous fury of vindictive relatives; but he might be tried by the local...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 35:29: So these [things] shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. (l) A law to judge murders done either on purpose, or accidentally.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 35:29-32: Num 35:29-32 If, therefore, the confinement of the unintentional manslayer in the city of refuge was neither an ordinary exile nor merely a means of rescuing him from the revenge of the enraged goel, but an appointment of the just and merciful God for the expiation of human blood even though not wilfully shed, that, whilst there was no violation of judicial righteousness, a barrier...