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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Numbers 35 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/35.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/35-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Numbers 35</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/34.htm" title="Numbers 34">&#9668;</a> Numbers 35 <a href="../numbers/36.htm" title="Numbers 36">&#9658;</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/numbers/35.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters">&nbsp;Par&nbsp;&#9662;&nbsp;</a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Cities for the Levites</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>&#8220;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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters">a</a></sup></span> all around. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>&#8220;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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasturelands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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.&#8221;</p> <p class="heading">Cities of Refuge</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>&#8220;Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the cities that you give shall be your six cities of refuge. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>&#8220;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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, lying in wait, so that he died, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>&#8220;But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And these things shall be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>&#8220;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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/35-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.&#8221;</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> A <i class="catch-word-plural">cubit</i> was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition&reg; (2016).<br /><br />The ESV&reg; Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version&reg;) copyright &copy; 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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