Numbers 35 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Cities for the Levites

Num 35:1And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho, saying,

Num 35:2Command the children of Israel, that of the inheritance of their possession they give unto the Levites cities to dwell in; and a suburb for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.

Num 35:3

Num 35:3And the cities shall they have to dwell in, and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

Num 35:4

Num 35:4And the suburbs of the cities that ye shall give unto the Levites shall be from the walls of the city outward, a thousand cubits round about.

Num 35:5

Num 35:5And ye shall measure, without the city, the east side two thousand cubits, and the south side two thousand cubits, and the west side two thousand cubits, and the north side two thousand cubits, and the city shall be in the midst: they shall have this as suburbs of the cities.

Cities of Refuge

Num 35:6

Num 35:6And among the cities that ye shall give unto the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither, -- and besides them ye shall give forty-two cities:

Num 35:7

Num 35:7all the cities that ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, they and their suburbs.

Num 35:8

Num 35:8And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have much ye shall take much, and from them that have little ye shall take little; each one according to his inheritance which he will inherit shall give of his cities to the Levites.

(Deu 19:1–13; Jos 20:1–9 )

Num 35:9

Num 35:9And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

Num 35:10

Num 35:10Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Num 35:11

Num 35:11then 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.

Num 35:12

Num 35:12And ye shall have these cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he have stood before the assembly in judgment.

Num 35:13

Num 35:13And the cities that ye shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you.

Num 35:14

Num 35:14Three cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

Num 35:15

Num 35:15For 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.

Num 35:16

Num 35:16And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Num 35:17

Num 35:17And if he have smitten him with a stone from the hand, wherewith one may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.

Num 35:18

Num 35:18Or if he have smitten him with an instrument of wood, in the hand, wherewith one may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death;

Num 35:19

Num 35:19the avenger of blood, he shall put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

Num 35:20

Num 35:20And if he thrust at him out of hatred, or hurl at him intentionally, so that he die,

Num 35:21

Num 35:21or from enmity smite him with his hand, so that he die, he that smote him shall certainly be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meeteth him. --

Num 35:22

Num 35:22But if he have thrust at him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him anything unintentionally,

Num 35:23

Num 35:23or have smitten him with any stone wherewith one may die, without seeing him, and have cast it upon him so that he die, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

Num 35:24

Num 35:24then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judgments;

Num 35:25

Num 35:25and the assembly shall rescue the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the assembly shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he had fled; and he shall abide in it until the death of the high-priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Num 35:26

Num 35:26But if the manslayer shall in any way come outside the limits of the city of his refuge whither he hath fled,

Num 35:27

Num 35:27and the avenger of blood find him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer, there shall be no blood-guiltiness upon him;

Num 35:28

Num 35:28for the manslayer should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high-priest; but after the death of the high-priest he may return into the land of his possession.

Num 35:29

Num 35:29And this shall be unto you a statute of right throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Num 35:30

Num 35:30Whoever shall smite a person mortally, at the mouth of witnesses shall the murderer be put to death; but one witness shall not testify against a person to cause him to die.

Num 35:31

Num 35:31And ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.

Num 35:32

Num 35:32And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that hath fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

Num 35:33

Num 35:33And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Num 35:34

Num 35:34And ye shall not defile the land that ye inhabit, in the midst whereof I dwell; for I am Jehovah who dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Numbers 35 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Cities for the Levites

Cities of Refuge

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