◄ Numbers 35:11 ►
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Good News Translation
you are to choose cities of refuge to which any of you can escape if you kill someone accidentally.

New Revised Standard Version
then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that a slayer who kills a person without intent may flee there.

Contemporary English Version
choose Safe Towns, where a person who has accidentally killed someone can run for protection.

New American Bible
select for yourselves cities to serve as cities of asylum, where a homicide who has killed someone inadvertently may flee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.

ye shall appoint.

Numbers 35:6 And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two cities,

Joshua 20:2 Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:

unawares.

Numbers 35:22,23 But if by chance medley, and without hatred, . . .

Exodus 21:13 But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.

Deuteronomy 4:42 That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he might escape to some one of these cities:

Deuteronomy 19:4,5 This shall be the law of the slayer that fleeth, whose life is to be saved: He that killeth his neighbor ignorantly, and who is proved to have had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before: . . .

Context
Six Cities of Refuge
…10Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan, 11Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.12And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:13
But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.

Leviticus 4:2
Say to the children of Israel: The soul that sinneth through ignorance, and doth any thing concerning any of the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded not to be done:

Leviticus 4:22
If a prince shall sin, and through ignorance do any one of the things that the law of the Lord forbiddeth,

Numbers 35:15
As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will.

Numbers 35:22
But if by chance medley, and without hatred,

Deuteronomy 19:1
When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the cities and houses thereof:

Joshua 20:2
Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:

Numbers 35:10
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