Numbers 35:28
because the slayer should have stayed in his town of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to the land of his possessions.
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- John 15:4-6 : 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.
- Acts 11:23 : 23 When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts,
- Acts 27:31 : 31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers,“Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
- Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
- Heb 6:4-8 : 4 For it is impossible in the case of those who have once been enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 tasted the good word of God and the miracles of the coming age, 6 and then have committed apostasy, to renew them again to repentance, since they are crucifying the Son of God for themselves all over again and holding him up to contempt. 7 For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God. 8 But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.
- Heb 9:11-12 : 11 Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, 12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured eternal redemption.
- Heb 9:15-17 : 15 And so he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the eternal inheritance he has promised, since he died to set them free from the violations committed under the first covenant. 16 For where there is a will, the death of the one who made it must be proven. 17 For a will takes effect only at death, since it carries no force while the one who made it is alive.
- Heb 10:26-30 : 26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, 27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies. 28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know the one who said,“Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again,“The Lord will judge his people.”
- Heb 10:39 : 39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.
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- Josh 20:2-65 verses86%
2 “Have the Israelites select the cities of refuge that I told you about through Moses.
3 Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there; these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.
4 The one who committed manslaughter should escape to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and present his case to the leaders of that city. They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there.
5 When the avenger of blood comes after him, they must not hand over to him the one who committed manslaughter, for he accidentally killed his fellow man without premeditation.
6 He must remain in that city until his case is decided by the assembly and the high priest dies. Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.”
- Num 35:19-279 verses86%
19 The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.
20 “But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,
21 or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.
22 “But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,
23 or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,
24 then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.
25 The community must deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community must restore him to the town of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the consecrated oil.
26 But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,
27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,
- Num 35:29-335 verses86%
29 So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.
30 “Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses, but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.
31 Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.
32 And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.
33 “You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
- Num 35:11-177 verses80%
11 you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.
12 And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.
13 These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.
14 “You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge.
15 These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the resident foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.
16 “But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.
17 If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.
- Deut 19:10-134 verses76%
10 You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
11 However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.
12 The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.
13 You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
- Deut 19:3-64 verses76%
3 You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the LORD your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.
4 Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, if he has accidentally killed another without hating him at the time of the accident.
5 Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.
6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.
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42 Anyone who accidentally killed someone without hating him at the time of the accident could flee to one of those cities and be safe.
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9 These were the cities of refuge appointed for all the Israelites and for resident foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed someone could escape there and not be executed by the avenger of blood, at least until his case was reviewed by the assembly.
- Deut 21:1-22 verses71%
1 Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,
2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.
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8 But if the individual has no close relative to whom reparation can be made for the wrong, the reparation for the wrong must be paid to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.
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6 Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.
- Lev 25:27-293 verses70%
27 he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.
28 If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.
29 Release of Houses“‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.
- Exod 21:13-142 verses70%
13 But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
14 But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.
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41 but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.
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24 In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.
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21 When it reverts in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the LORD like a permanently dedicated field; it will become the priest’s property.
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17 The one who is tormented by the murder of another will flee to the pit; let no one support him.
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4 but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.