Numbers 35:15 “These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the…”

Numbers 35:15

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.

World English Bible

These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreigner living among them, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

American Standard Version

For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

Geneva Bible 1599

These six cities shalbe a refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that dwelleth among you, that euery one which killeth any person vnwares, may flee thither.

Darby Translation

For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them shall these six cities be a refuge, that one who smiteth a person mortally without intent may flee thither.

Young's Literal Translation

To sons of Israel, and to a sojourner, and to a settler in their midst, are these six cities for a refuge, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting a person unawares.

Bible in Basic English

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

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Cross references

“These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.”

Numbers 15:16 Exodus 12:49 Leviticus 24:22 Romans 3:29 Galatians 3:28

Numbers 15:16 · BSB

The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”

Exodus 12:49 · BSB

The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

Leviticus 24:22 · BSB

You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”

Romans 3:29 · BSB

Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

Galatians 3:28 · BSB

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

In context

14Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.

16If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

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