NU-35:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by
Jordan [near]
Jericho, saying,
NU-35:2 Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the
Levites of
the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye
shall give
[also] unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.
NU-35:3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the
suburbs of them
shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all
their beasts.
NU-35:4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto
the Levites,
[shall reach] from the wall of the city and outward a thousand
cubits round
about.
NU-35:5 And ye shall measure from without the city on the east
side 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; and the
city [shall be] in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs
of the cities.
NU-35:6 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the
Levites [there
shall be] six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the
manslayer,
that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two
cities.
NU-35:7 [So] all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites
[shall be]
forty and eight cities: them [shall ye give] with their suburbs.
NU-35:8 And the cities which ye shall give [shall be] of the
possession of
the children of Israel: from [them that have] many ye shall give
many; but
from [them that have] few ye shall give few: every one shall
give of his
cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he
inheriteth.
NU-35:9 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
NU-35:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye be
come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
NU-35:11 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.
NU-35:12 And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the
avenger; that
the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in
judgment.
NU-35:13 And of these cities which ye shall give six cities
shall ye have for
refuge.
NU-35:14 Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and
three cities
shall ye give in the land of Canaan, [which] shall be cities of
refuge.
NU-35:15 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.
NU-35:16 And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so
that he die, he
[is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
NU-35:17 And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith
he may die, and
he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death.
NU-35:18 Or [if] he smite him with an hand weapon of wood,
wherewith he may
die, and he die, he [is] a murderer: the murderer shall surely
be put to
death.
NU-35:19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer:
when he
meeteth him, he shall slay him.
NU-35:20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by
laying of wait,
that he die;
NU-35:21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he
that smote
[him] shall surely be put to death; [for] he [is] a murderer:
the revenger of
blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
NU-35:22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have
cast upon him
any thing without laying of wait,
NU-35:23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing
[him] not, and
cast [it] upon him, that he die, and [was] not his enemy,
neither sought his
harm:
NU-35:24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer
and the
revenger of blood according to these judgments:
NU-35:25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of
the hand of the
revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the
city of his
refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the
death of the
high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
NU-35:26 But if the slayer shall at any time come without the
border of the
city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
NU-35:27 And the revenger of blood find him without the borders
of the city
of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he
shall not be
guilty of blood:
NU-35:28 Because he should have remained in the city of his
refuge until the
death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest
the slayer
shall return into the land of his possession.
NU-35:29 So these [things] shall be for a statute of judgment
unto you
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
NU-35:30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to
death by the
mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against
any person [to
cause him] to die.
NU-35:31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of
a murderer,
which [is] guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
NU-35:32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled
to the city
of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land,
until the death
of the priest.
NU-35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye [are]: for
blood it
defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood
that is shed
therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
NU-35:34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit,
wherein I
dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
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