Numbers 35:25

shall restore him It is not stated where the congregation had taken him for judgement, but it was presumably to his own city. It is not, however, impossible that -the congregation" means, as elsewhere in P, the whole community of Israel, and that P tacitly assumed that Jerusalem would be the place of judgement.

the high priest lit. -the greatpriest." The title is used in P of Aaron and his eldest descendants. Outside the Hexateuch, it first appears of Jehoiada (2 Kings 12:10), then of Hilkiah (2 Kings 22:4; 2 Kings 22:8); and after the exile, of Joshua (Haggai 1:1 &c., Zechariah 3:1; Zechariah 3:8) and Eliashib (Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 3:20; Nehemiah 13:28). The high priest was the head of the religious affairs of the Jewish church, and rose, in the popular estimation, to a higher importance than the civil governor who was appointed by a foreign power. So that -until the death of the high priest" would have almost the same force that the words -until the death of the reigning sovereign" would bear to-day.