Numbers 35:6

World English Bible (2000)

"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.

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  • Josh 21:3 : 3 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.
  • Josh 21:13 : 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,
  • Josh 21:21 : 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 21:27 : 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.
  • Josh 21:32 : 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.
  • Josh 21:36 : 36 Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, Jahaz with its suburbs,
  • Josh 21:38 : 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,
  • Ps 9:9 : 9 Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.
  • Ps 62:7-8 : 7 With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 8 Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • Ps 142:4-5 : 4 Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul. 5 I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."
  • Isa 4:6 : 6 There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
  • Heb 6:18 : 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
  • Num 35:13-14 : 13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. 14 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.
  • 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.
  • Josh 20:2-9 : 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. 5 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before. 6 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.'" 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 35:11-15
    5 verses
    91%

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

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

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

    14You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

    15For 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.

  • Num 35:7-9
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    7All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their suburbs.

    8Concerning 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."

    9Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 4:42-43
    2 verses
    77%

    42that 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 20:2-4
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    77%

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

    3that 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.

    4He 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.

  • Num 35:24-29
    6 verses
    76%

    24then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

    25and 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,

    27and 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,

    28because 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.

  • Num 35:1-5
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    1Yahweh 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.

    3The 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.

    5You 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.

  • Deut 19:2-7
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    74%

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

    3You 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.

    4This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;

    5as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

    6lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

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

  • 1 Chr 6:64-65
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    64The children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.

    65They gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which are mentioned by name.

  • Num 35:32
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    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.

  • 1 Chr 6:67
    73%

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

  • 1 Chr 6:56-57
    2 verses
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    56but the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

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

  • Josh 20:9
    73%

    9These 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 21:41-42
    2 verses
    73%

    41All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.

    42Each of these cities included their suburbs around them. It was this way with all these cities.

  • Josh 21:32
    72%

    32Out 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.

  • Josh 21:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.

    27They 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.

  • Josh 21:13
    71%

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

  • Josh 20:6
    71%

    6He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.'"

  • Josh 21:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

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

    22Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities.

  • 1 Chr 6:61
    68%

    61To the rest of the sons of Kohath [were given] by lot, out of the family of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.

  • Josh 21:38
    68%

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

  • Deut 21:2
    68%

    2then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:

  • Deut 19:12
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    12then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.