Numbers 35:11 “designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person w…”

Numbers 35:11

designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

World English Bible

then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

American Standard Version

then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

Geneva Bible 1599

Ye shall appoint you cities, to bee cities of refuge for you, that the slayer, which slayeth any person vnwares, may flee thither.

Darby Translation

then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.

Young's Literal Translation

and have prepared to yourselves cities — cities of refuge they are to you — then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,

Bible in Basic English

Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

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Cross references

“ye shall appoint”

Numbers 35:6 Joshua 20:2

Numbers 35:6 · BSB

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.

Joshua 20:2 · BSB

“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

“unawares”

Exodus 21:13 Deuteronomy 4:42 Numbers 35:22 Numbers 35:23 Deuteronomy 19:4 Deuteronomy 19:5

Exodus 21:13 · BSB

If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

Deuteronomy 4:42 · BSB

to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

Numbers 35:22 · BSB

But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,

Numbers 35:23 · BSB

or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,

Deuteronomy 19:4 · BSB

Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

Deuteronomy 19:5 · BSB

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his lif…

Also

Deuteronomy 19:1–13

Deuteronomy 19:1–13 · BSB

When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

12You 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.

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