Numbers 35:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.”
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“designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.”
King James Version · Public Domain“then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and have prepared to yourselves cities--cities of refuge they are to you--then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 35:11 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 21:13If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
- Numbers 35:6Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
- Numbers 35:22But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
- Deuteronomy 4:42to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
- Deuteronomy 19:1When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
- Joshua 20:2“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
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