Numbers 35:9-15

Establishing the Cities of Refuge

Numbers 35:9-15

Establishing the Cities of Refuge

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The Lord said to Moses:
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Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan,
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Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.
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And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.
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And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,
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Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Chanaan,
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As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will.
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Where else Scripture says this.

  • Exodus 21:13

    But he that did not lie in wait for him, but God delivered him into his hands: I will appoint thee a place to which he must flee.
    from verse 11

  • Joshua 20:2

    Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:
    from verse 10

  • Joshua 20:6

    And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand before judgment to give an account of his fact, and till the death of the high priest, who shall be at that time: then shall the manslayer return, and go into his own city and house from whence he fled.
    from verse 10

  • Numbers 35:6

    And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two cities,
    from verse 11

  • Deuteronomy 19:6

    Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed on by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too long, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain.
    from verse 12

  • Joshua 20:3

    That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them, and may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood.
    from verse 12

  • Deuteronomy 19:1

    When the Lord thy God hath destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to thee, and thou shalt possess it, and shalt dwell in the cities and houses thereof:
    from verse 10

  • Deuteronomy 4:42

    That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before, and that he might escape to some one of these cities:
    from verse 11

  • Deuteronomy 19:13

    Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.
    from verse 11

  • Numbers 35:22

    But if by chance medley, and without hatred,
    from verse 11

  • Numbers 35:25

    The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.
    from verse 11

  • Joshua 20:9

    These cities were appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the strangers, that dwelt among them, that whosoever had killed a person unawares might flee to them, and not die by the hand of the kinsman, coveting to revenge the blood that was shed, until he should stand before the people to lay open his cause.
    from verse 12
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