However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself – you must not eat the life with the meat!

However, you must not eat blood – pour it out on the ground like water.

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime.

In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the Lord.

Do not blame your people Israel whom you redeemed, O Lord, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.” Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.