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Numbers 35 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Cities for the Levites

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits[fn] all around.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And you shall measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall belong to them as pastureland for their cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasturelands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - And as for the cities that you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.”

Cities of Refuge

(Deu 19:1–13; Jos 20:1–9 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:9 - And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:10 - “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - And the cities that you give shall be your six cities of refuge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:16 - “But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:17 - And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:19 - The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:20 - And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21 - or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:22 - “But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:24 - then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - and the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - For he must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:29 - And these things shall be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:30 - “If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31 - Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:33 - You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34 - You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”
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