Numbers 35 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Cities for the Levites

Num 35:1The LORD spoke to Moshe in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden at Yericho, saying,

Num 35:2Command the children of Yisra'el that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the Levites.

Num 35:3

Num 35:3The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

Num 35:4

Num 35:4The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits round about.

Num 35:5

Num 35:5You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

Cities of Refuge

Num 35:6

Num 35:6The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

Num 35:7

Num 35:7All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; them shall you give with their suburbs.

Num 35:8

Num 35:8Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Yisra'el, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.

(Deu 19:1–13; Jos 20:1–9 )

Num 35:9

Num 35:9The LORD spoke to Moshe, saying,

Num 35:10

Num 35:10Speak to the children of Yisra'el, and tell them, When you pass over the Yarden into the land of Kana`an,

Num 35:11

Num 35:11then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Num 35:12

Num 35:12The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

Num 35:13

Num 35:13The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

Num 35:14

Num 35:14You shall give three cities beyond the Yarden, and three cities shall you give in the land of Kana`an; they shall be cities of refuge.

Num 35:15

Num 35:15For the children of Yisra'el, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Num 35:16

Num 35:16But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Num 35:17

Num 35:17If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Num 35:18

Num 35:18Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Num 35:19

Num 35:19The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

Num 35:20

Num 35:20If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

Num 35:21

Num 35:21or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

Num 35:22

Num 35:22But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

Num 35:23

Num 35:23or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

Num 35:24

Num 35:24then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

Num 35:25

Num 35:25and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the Kohen Gadol, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Num 35:26

Num 35:26But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

Num 35:27

Num 35:27and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

Num 35:28

Num 35:28because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the Kohen Gadol: but after the death of the Kohen Gadol the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

Num 35:29

Num 35:29These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Num 35:30

Num 35:30Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

Num 35:31

Num 35:31Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

Num 35:32

Num 35:32You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the Kohen.

Num 35:33

Num 35:33So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Num 35:34

Num 35:34You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, the LORD, dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra'el.

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Numbers 35 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Cities for the Levites

Cities of Refuge

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