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Numbers 35 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Cities for the Levites

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Now Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:3 - “And the cities shall be theirs to live in; and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their herds and for all their beasts.

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“And the pasture lands of the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city [fn]outward [fn]one thousand cubits around.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - “You shall also measure outside the city on the east side [fn]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, with the city in the center. This shall become theirs as pasture lands for the cities.

Cities of Refuge

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:6 - “And the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:7 - “All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, [fn]together with their pasture lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - “Now as for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger, and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his possession which he inherits.”
(Deu 19:1–13; Jos 20:1–9 )

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Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:10 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - then you shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has struck down any person unintentionally may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:12 - ‘And the cities shall be for you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:13 - ‘And the cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:14 - ‘You shall give three cities across the Jordan and three cities [fn]in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities of refuge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - ‘These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel and for the sojourner and for the foreign resident among them; that anyone who strikes a person down unintentionally may flee there.

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‘But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:17 - ‘And if he struck him down with a stone in the hand, by which he would die, and as a result he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:18 - ‘Or if he struck him with a wooden object in the hand, by which he would die, and as a result he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:19 - ‘The blood avenger himself shall put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:20 - ‘And if he pushed him of hatred or threw something at him lying in wait and as a result he died,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:21 - or if he struck him down with his hand in enmity, and as a result he died, the one who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer; the blood avenger shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

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‘But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity or threw something at him without lying in wait,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or with any stone—by which one might die, yet without seeing—and it fell upon him, and he died, but he was not his enemy nor seeking his injury,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:24 - then the congregation shall judge between the [fn]slayer and the blood avenger according to these legal judgments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - ‘And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:26 - ‘But if the manslayer at any time goes beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he may flee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - and the blood avenger finds him outside the border of his city of refuge, and the blood avenger kills the manslayer, he will not be guilty of blood

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.

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‘And these things shall be for a statutory judgment to you throughout your generations in all your places of habitation.

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‘If anyone strikes down a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the mouth of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:31 - ‘Moreover, you shall not take ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:32 - ‘And you shall not take ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to live in the land [fn]before the death of the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:33 - ‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land, and no propitiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34 - ‘And you shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I Yahweh am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.’”
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LSB Footnotes
Lit and outward
Approx. 500 yd. or 450 m
Approx. 1000 yd. or 900 m
Lit them
Lit you shall give in
Or one who strikes down, cf. 35:21
Or until
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