Numbers 35:14

World English Bible (2000)

You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

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  • Deut 4:41-43 : 41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; 42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: 43 [namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
  • Deut 19:8-9 : 8 If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; 9 if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three: 10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
  • Josh 20:7-9 : 7 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. 8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. 9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.

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  • Num 35:1-13
    13 verses
    92%

    1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

    2 "Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.

    3 The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

    4 "The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it.

    5 You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

    6 "The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

    7 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.

    8 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites."

    9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

    11 then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

    12 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

    13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

  • Num 35:15
    83%

    15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

  • Deut 19:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

    3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

  • Deut 19:7
    79%

    7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

  • Josh 20:2-4
    3 verses
    78%

    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

    3 that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

    4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

  • Josh 21:31-33
    3 verses
    76%

    31 Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.

    32 Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.

    33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

  • Deut 4:41-43
    3 verses
    76%

    41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

    42 that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

    43 [namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

  • Josh 20:7-9
    3 verses
    75%

    7 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

    8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

    9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.

  • Josh 21:27
    73%

    27 They gave to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be Eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.

  • 1 Chr 6:67
    73%

    67 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,

  • Josh 21:21
    72%

    21 They gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,

  • Josh 21:13
    72%

    13 To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah with its suburbs,

  • Deut 19:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:

    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

  • 1 Chr 6:57
    72%

    57 To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,

  • Num 35:25-29
    5 verses
    71%

    25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

    26 "'But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

    27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

    28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

    29 "'These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Josh 21:3
    71%

    3 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.

  • Num 35:32
    71%

    32 "'You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

  • Josh 21:37-39
    3 verses
    70%

    37 Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.

    38 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,

    39 Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.

  • Josh 14:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

    4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and for their property.

  • 1 Chr 6:64
    69%

    64 The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.

  • Num 34:16
    67%

    16 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,