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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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/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="/bmc//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="/numbers/">Numbers</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">◄</a> Numbers 35 <a href="../numbers/36.htm" title="Numbers 36">►</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/numbers/35.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/numbers/35.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/numbers/35.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/numbers/35.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/numbers/35.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/numbers/35.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/numbers/35.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Forty-Eight Cities for the Levites<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../joshua/21.htm">Joshua 21:1–45</a>; <a href ="../1_chronicles/6.htm#54">1 Chronicles 6:54–81</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho: <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Command the Israelites to give, from the inheritance they will possess, cities for the Levites to live in and pasturelands around the cities. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> from the wall on every side. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You are also to measure two thousand cubits<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The total number of cities you give the Levites will be forty-eight, with their corresponding pasturelands. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The cities that you apportion from the territory of the Israelites should be given to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one.” <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Six Cities of Refuge<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../deuteronomy/4.htm#41">Deuteronomy 4:41–43</a>; <a href ="../deuteronomy/19.htm">Deuteronomy 19:1–14</a>; <a href ="../joshua/20.htm">Joshua 20:1–9</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there. <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him. <A name="23"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally, <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him, <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. <A name="27"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live. <A name="31"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness. <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest. <A name="34"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/35-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>1,000 cubits</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 1,500 feet or 457.2 meters.<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>2,000 cubits</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 3,000 feet or 914.4 meters.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. Used by Permission. All rights Reserved. Free <a href=http://berean.bible/downloads.htm>downloads</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible/licensing.htm>licensing</a> available. 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