Numbers 35:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Exod 21:13 : 13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
  • Josh 20:2 : 2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
  • Num 35:6 : 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.
  • Num 35:22-25 : 22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, 23 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm; 24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances; 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.
  • Deut 4:42 : 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:
  • Deut 19:1-9 : 1 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses; 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. 4 This 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; 5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew 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: 6 lest 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. 7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you. 8 If Yahweh your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; 9 if you shall 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 shall you add three cities more for you, 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. 11 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities; 12 then 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. 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 20:2-6
    5 verses
    92%

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

    3that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there: and 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; and they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

    5If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before.

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

  • Num 35:12-17
    6 verses
    90%

    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 three cities shall you give 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.

    16But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

    17If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  • Josh 20:9
    87%

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

  • Deut 4:42-43
    2 verses
    87%

    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.

  • Num 35:19-32
    14 verses
    82%

    19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

    20If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

    21or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

    22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

    23or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

    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.

    26But 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.

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

    30Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

    31Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

    32You 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.

  • Deut 19:2-7
    6 verses
    82%

    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 hew 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 you.

  • Num 35:6
    81%

    6The 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.

  • Exod 21:12-14
    3 verses
    77%

    12"One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

    13but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

    14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

  • Deut 19:10-13
    4 verses
    77%

    10that 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.

    11But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;

    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.

    13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Deut 21:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

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

  • Josh 21:32
    71%

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

  • Num 35:10
    71%

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

  • Josh 21:21
    71%

    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,

  • Josh 21:38
    69%

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

  • Josh 21:27
    69%

    27To the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be-eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.