As children or young adults, siblings who break the Torah Commandments, the 613 Mitzvoth, and become guilty of incest, breaking these rules, 15 incidents of types of incest that are forbidden, both parties, the son and/or daughter, must be excommunicated from the family. These are Jewish rules, as stated in the Torah. They must try to make it alone, a family of theirs so humiliated by their actions that no family assistance can be given to these guilty parties.
A City of Refuge is the only home for these guilty parties, to live as forgiven there by God Himself, to not have a fear to live. For no party to seek his life, a safe exile guarded and protected.
If there is a teacher involved with these excommunicated people, and the student becomes exiled as he is studying Torah, then the teacher must go into exile as well.
There are impurities that no one can forgive, humans are not strong enough, to instead be a person who has God to forgive him, and a safe place to live where not sought after to be punished by the vengeful.
God forgives all who beckon Him and forgiveness is complete, total, no matter what was your transgression. The exile becomes a safe place to live for both teacher and student. And God being present incredibly in this place of refuge with the exiled as He leads these forgiven people with the goal to heal them so they can perform deeds of loving-kindness with their lives and be able to overcome any evil inclination.
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