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This shall belong to the Levites as pasture lands for the cities. <p class="hdg">Cities of Refuge</p><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>[Among] the cities which you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall provide for the one who commits manslaughter to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities [to the Levites]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So you shall give to the Levites forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasture lands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>As for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the Israelites, from the larger <i>tribes</i> you shall take many and from the smaller <i>tribes</i> few; each <i>tribe</i> shall give [at least some] of its cities to the Levites in proportion to [the size of] its inheritance which it possesses.” <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Tell the Israelites, ‘When you cross the Jordan [River] into the land of Canaan, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>then you shall select for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge, so that the one who kills any person unintentionally may escape there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who has caused the death of another will not be killed until he has had a [fair] trial before the congregation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The cities which you are to provide shall be your six cities of refuge. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You shall provide three cities on this [east] side of the Jordan [River], and three [more] cities in the land of Canaan; they are to be the cities of refuge. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>These six cities shall be a refuge for the Israelites and for the stranger and the resident alien among them; so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may escape there. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>‘But if he struck <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>his victim down [intentionally] with an iron object so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall certainly be put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>If he struck his victim down [intentionally] with a stone in hand, which may cause a person to die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall certainly be put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Or if he struck his victim down [intentionally] with a wooden object in hand, which may cause a person to die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall certainly be put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The blood avenger shall himself put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if he pushed his victim out of hatred or threw something at him with malicious intent, and he died, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>or if, in enmity, he struck the victim down with his hand, and he died, the one that struck the victim shall certainly be put to death; he is a murderer. The blood avenger shall put the murderer to death when he meets him. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>‘But if he pushed the victim suddenly, not in enmity, or threw anything at him without malicious intent, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>or without seeing him hit him [accidentally] with a stone object that could kill him, and he died, and [the offender] was not his enemy nor intending to harm him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>then the congregation shall judge between the offender and the blood avenger according to these ordinances. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The congregation shall rescue the offender from the hand of the blood avenger and return him to his city of refuge, [the place] to which he had escaped; and he shall live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the sacred oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But if at any time the one guilty of manslaughter comes outside the border of his city of refuge to which he fled, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and the blood avenger finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills the offender, the blood avenger will not be guilty of murder, <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>because the offender should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the high priest’s death the offender shall return to the land of his possession. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>‘These things shall be a statute for you throughout your generations wherever you may be. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>‘If anyone kills a person [intentionally], the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of [two or more] witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of [only] one witness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Moreover, you shall not accept a ransom [in exchange] for the life of a murderer guilty <i>and sentenced</i> to death; but he shall certainly be put to death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>You shall not accept a ransom for him who has escaped to his city of refuge, so that he may return to live in his [own] land before the death of the high priest. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So you shall not pollute <i>and</i> defile the land in which you live; for [the shedding of innocent] blood pollutes <i>and</i> defiles the land. No atonement (expiation) can be made for the land for the [innocent] blood shed in it, except by the blood (execution) of him who shed it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/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 live, for I, the LORD, live among the people of Israel.’”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>him,</i> and so throughout.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/34.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 34"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 34" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/36.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 36"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 36" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>