Verse 11

Then you shall appoint cities for yourselves to be cities of refuge; that the slayer may flee there, who kills any person accidentally.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  skal dere utpeke byer som tilfluktsbyer, hvor en drapsmann som har drept noen uten forsett kan flykte.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  da skal dere velge ut byer som tilfluktsbyer for dere, hvor en som dreper en annen ved et uhell kan flykte.

• Norsk King James

  Da skal dere utpeke byer tilflukt, slik at en drapsmann kan flykte dit, dersom han ved en feil dreper noen.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  da skal dere utpeke byer som skal være tilfluktsbyer for dere. En manddraber som dreper noen ved uhell kan flykte dit.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  skal dere velge ut byer som tilfluktsbyer hvor en drapsmann som har drept noen ved uhell, kan flykte til.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  skal dere utpeke byer som skal være tilfluktsbyer for dere, hvor den som dreper noen uforvarende kan flykte.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  skal dere utpeke byer som et tilfluktssted for dere, slik at den som dreper en person ved et uventet angrep kan flykte dit.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  skal dere utpeke byer som skal være tilfluktsbyer for dere, hvor den som dreper noen uforvarende kan flykte.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  skal dere utpeke byer som tilfluktssteder for dere, hvor en morder som har drept en person uforvarende kan flykte.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  you shall designate cities to serve as cities of refuge where someone who unintentionally kills another may flee.

• biblecontext

  { "verseID": "Numbers.35.11", "source": "וְהִקְרִיתֶ֤ם לָכֶם֙ עָרִ֔ים עָרֵ֥י מִקְלָ֖ט תִּהְיֶ֣ינָה לָכֶ֑ם וְנָ֥ס שָׁ֙מָּה֙ רֹצֵ֔חַ מַכֵּה־נֶ֖פֶשׁ בִּשְׁגָגָֽה׃", "text": "And *wəhiqrîṯem* for yourselves cities, cities of *miqlāṭ* *tihyeynâ* for you, and *wənās* *šāmmâ* *rōṣēaḥ* *makkēh*-*nepeš* *bišḡāḡâ*.", "grammar": { "*wəhiqrîṯem*": "waw-consecutive + Hiphil perfect, 2nd masculine plural - and you shall appoint", "*miqlāṭ*": "masculine singular noun - refuge", "*tihyeynâ*": "Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine plural - they shall be", "*wənās*": "waw-consecutive + Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - and shall flee", "*šāmmâ*": "adverb with directional *he* - there/thither", "*rōṣēaḥ*": "Qal participle, masculine singular - murderer/manslayer", "*makkēh*": "Hiphil participle, masculine singular construct - striker of", "*nepeš*": "feminine singular noun - soul/person", "*bišḡāḡâ*": "preposition + feminine singular noun - in error/unintentionally" }, "variants": { "*hiqrîṯem*": "appoint/designate/set aside", "*miqlāṭ*": "refuge/asylum", "*rōṣēaḥ*": "murderer/manslayer/one who kills another", "*nepeš*": "soul/person/life", "*šəḡāḡâ*": "error/mistake/unintentional sin" } }

• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  skal dere plukke ut byer som skal være tilfluktsbyer, så en som dreper noen ved uhell kan flykte dit.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  da skulle I udnævne eder Stæder, de skulle være Tilflugtsstæder for eder, at en Manddraber kan flye derhen, som slaaer en Person (ihjel) af en Forseelse.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  skal dere opprette byer som tilfluktsbyer for dere, slik at drapsmannen som dreper noen uten forsett kan flykte dit.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  da skal dere utpeke byer som tilfluktsbyer for dere, slik at en drapsmann som har drept en person uforsett, skal kunne flykte dit.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  skal dere velge byer som skal være fristeder for dere, hvor en drapsmann som har drept noen uten å ville det kan flykte.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  skal dere utpeke byer som tilfluktsbyer for dere, hvor en drapsmann som uforvarende har drept noen, kan flykte.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Da skal noen byer utpekes som tilfluktssteder, hvor enhver som ved et uhell dreper noen, kan søke tilflukt.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  ye shall bylde cities whiche shalbe preuyleged townes for you: that he whiche sleeth a man vnwares maye flye thither.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  ye shall chose out cities to be fre cities, yt who so comytteth slaughter vnawarres, maye flye thither.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Ye shall appoint you cities, to bee cities of refuge for you, that the slayer, which slayeth any person vnwares, may flee thither.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Ye shall appoint you cities, to be cities of refuge for you: that he whiche sleeth a person vnwares, may flee thyther.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

• 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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and have prepared to yourselves cities -- cities of refuge they are to you -- then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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.

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 21:13 : 13 However, if he did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint a place for you where he may flee.
• Josh 20:2 : 2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Set apart cities of refuge for yourselves, of which I spoke to you through Moses:
• Num 35:6 : 6 And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which you shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee there: and to them you shall add forty-two cities.
• Num 35:22-25 : 22 But if he pushes him suddenly without enmity, or throws anything upon him without lying in wait, 23 Or with any stone, by which a man may die, seeing him not, and throw it upon him, so that he dies, and was not his enemy, nor sought his harm: 24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments: 25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, where he had fled: and he shall abide in it until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
• Deut 4:42 : 42 That the slayer might flee there, who should kill his neighbor unintentionally, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
• Deut 19:1-9 : 1 When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and houses; 2 You shall set apart three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess. 3 You shall prepare a road for yourself, and divide the territory of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, so that every manslayer may flee there. 4 And this is the case of the manslayer who shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, whom he did not hate in time past; 5 As when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, he shall flee to one of those 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 kill him; though he was not worthy of death, since he did not hate him in time past. 7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourself. 8 And if the LORD 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 these commandments to do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three; 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you. 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and flees into one of these cities; 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die. 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.