then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.
Then the congregation,.... That is, the court of judicature, assembled together to hear and try this cause: shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood; shall hear what both have to say, and pass sentence: according to these judgments; these judicial laws and rules of judgment before delivered, exemplified in various cases.
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments: (h) That is, his next kinsman.
Num 35:24-25 In such a case as this, the congregation was to judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood, according to the judgments before them. They were to rescue the innocent man from the avenger of blood, to bring him back to his (i.e., the nearest) city of refuge to which he had fled, that he might dwell there till the death of...
Commenting on Numbers 35:24-25