Numbers 35:9-15

Establishing the Cities of Refuge

Numbers 35:9-15

Establishing the Cities of Refuge

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ADONAI said to Moshe,
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"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'When you cross the Yarden into the land of Kena'an,
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you are to designate for yourselves cities that will be cities of refuge for you, to which anyone who kills someone by mistake can flee.​
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These cities are to be a refuge for you from the dead person's next-of-kin, who might otherwise avenge his kinsman's death by slaying the killer prior to his standing trial before the community.​
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In regard to the cities you are to give, there are to be six cities of refuge for you.
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You are to give three cities east of the Yarden and three cities in the land of Kena'an; they will be cities of refuge.
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These six cities will serve as refuge for the people of Isra'el, as well as for the foreigner and resident alien with them; so that anyone who kills someone by mistake may flee there.​
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See also

Where else Scripture says this.

  • Exodus 21:13

    If it was not premeditated but an act of God, then I will designate for you a place to which he can flee.
    from verse 11

  • Joshua 20:2

    "Tell the people of Isra'el, 'Select the cities of refuge about which I spoke to you through Moshe;
    from verse 10

  • Joshua 20:6

    So he will live in that city until he stands trial before the community, until the death of the cohen hagadol who is in office at the time. When that time comes, the killer may return to his own city and his own house, to the city from which he fled.'"
    from verse 10

  • Numbers 35:6

    The cities you give to the L'vi'im are to be the six cities of refuge to which you permit the person who kills someone to flee to; plus an additional forty-two cities.
    from verse 11

  • Deuteronomy 19:6

    Otherwise the next-of-kin avenger, in the heat of his anger, may pursue the killer, overtake him because the distance [to the city of refuge] is long, and strike him dead - even though he didn't deserve to die, inasmuch as he hadn't hated him in the past.
    from verse 12

  • Joshua 20:3

    so that anyone who kills someone by mistake and unknowingly may escape there; they will serve as refuges for you from the next-of-kin avenger.
    from verse 12

  • Deuteronomy 19:1

    "When ADONAI your God cuts off the nations whose land ADONAI your God is giving you, and you take their place and settle in their cities and houses,
    from verse 10

  • Deuteronomy 4:42

    to which a killer might flee, that is, someone who kills by mistake a person whom he did not previously hate, and upon fleeing to one of these cities might live there.
    from verse 11

  • Deuteronomy 19:13

    You are not to pity him. Rather, you must put an end to the shedding of innocent blood in Isra'el. Then things will go well with you.
    from verse 11

  • Numbers 35:22

    "'But suppose he shoves him suddenly, but without hostility; or he throws something at him unintentionally;
    from verse 11

  • Numbers 35:25

    and the community is to save the killer from the next-of-kin avenger. The community is to return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he is to live there until the cohen hagadol, who was anointed with the holy oil, dies.
    from verse 11

  • Joshua 20:9

    These were the cities selected for all the people of Isra'el and for the foreigner living among them, so that anyone who kills any person by mistake could flee there and not die at the hand of the next-of-kin avenger prior to standing trial before the community.
    from verse 12
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