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Bible Verses About Cities of Refuge

9 verses · 12 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. `And if with an instrument of iron he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

  2. `And if with a stone in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

  3. `Or with a wooden instrument in the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he is a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

  4. `The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

  5. `And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast anything at him by lying in wait, and he dieth;

  6. or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he is a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.

  7. Then Moses separateth three cities beyond the Jordan, towards the sun-rising,

  8. for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath lived:

  9. Bezer, in the wilderness, in the land of the plain, of the Reubenite; and Ramoth, in Gilead, of the Gadite; and Golan, in Bashan, of the Manassahite.