Joshua 20:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 35:12 : 12 In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.
  • Num 35:24-25 : 24 Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules: 25 And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.
  • Heb 9:26 : 26 For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.

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  • Num 35:19-29
    11 verses
    86%

    19 He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

    20 If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;

    21 Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

    22 But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

    23 Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil:

    24 Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

    25 And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

    26 But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

    27 And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

    28 Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

    29 These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.

  • Num 35:11-13
    3 verses
    83%

    11 Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

    12 In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

    13 Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

  • Josh 20:2-5
    4 verses
    82%

    2 Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

    3 So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

    4 And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.

    5 And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

  • 9 These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.

  • Deut 19:3-7
    5 verses
    80%

    3 You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.

    4 This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;

    5 For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:

    6 For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.

    7 And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.

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    10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

    11 But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;

    12 The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

    13 Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

  • Num 35:31-32
    2 verses
    79%

    31 Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

    32 And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest.

  • 42 To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

  • Num 35:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

    16 But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

  • Deut 21:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1 If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:

    2 Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;

    3 And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

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    12 He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.

    13 But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.

    14 But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

  • 7 So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.

  • 6 And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

  • 6 And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,

  • 19 Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

  • 21 He who puts a beast to death will have to make payment for it; he who puts a man to death will himself be put to death.

  • 4 And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:

  • 17 One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

  • 17 And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.

  • 4 Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.

  • 13 And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;

  • 8 But if the man has no relation to whom the payment may be made, then the payment for sin made to the Lord will be the priest's, in addition to the sheep offered to take away his sin.