Numbers 35:14

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Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

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  • Deut 4:41-43 : 41 Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east; 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: 43 The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.
  • Deut 19:8-9 : 8 And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers; 9 If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you: 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.
  • Josh 20:7-9 : 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. 8 And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. 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.

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  • Num 35:1-13
    13 verses
    92%

    1 And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,

    2 Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

    3 These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

    4 Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.

    5 The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.

    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.

    7 Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

    8 And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

    9 And the Lord said to Moses,

    10 Say to the children of Israel, when you have gone over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

    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;

  • Num 35:15
    83%

    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.

  • Deut 19:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2 You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

    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.

  • Deut 19:7
    79%

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

  • Josh 20:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    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.

  • Josh 21:31-33
    3 verses
    76%

    31 Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.

    32 And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.

    33 All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.

  • Deut 4:41-43
    3 verses
    76%

    41 Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east;

    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:

    43 The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.

  • Josh 20:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

    8 And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

    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.

  • Josh 21:27
    73%

    27 And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.

  • 1 Chr 6:67
    73%

    67 And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts,

  • Josh 21:21
    72%

    21 And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;

  • Josh 21:13
    72%

    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;

  • Deut 19:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you:

    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.

  • 1 Chr 6:57
    72%

    57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,

  • Num 35:25-29
    5 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Josh 21:3
    71%

    3 And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

  • Num 35:32
    71%

    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.

  • Josh 21:37-39
    3 verses
    70%

    37 Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.

    38 And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;

    39 Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • Josh 14:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

    4 Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

  • 1 Chr 6:64
    69%

    64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts.

  • Num 34:16
    67%

    16 And the Lord said to Moses,