Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
Again
the
LORD
spoke to Moses on
the plains of Moab by the Jordan across
from
Jericho :
Yahweh
spoke to Moses in
the plains of Moab by the Jordan at
Jericho ,
saying,
“
Command the Israelites
to
give ,
from
the inheritance they
will
possess,
cities for
the
Levites
to live
in and pasturelands
around
the cities.
Command the children
of
Israel
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
.
The cities will
be
for
them
to live
in ,
and the
pasturelands
will
be for their herds
, their flocks
, and all their other
livestock
.
The cities shall
they
have
to dwell
in ;
and their
suburbs
shall
be for their cattle
, and
for
their substance
, and for
all their animals
.
The pasturelands
around
the cities you are
to
give the Levites will
extend
a
thousand
cubits
from the wall on
every
side
.
The 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
.
You are
also
to
measure two
thousand
cubits
outside the city on
the east ,
two thousand on
the south ,
two thousand on
the
west
, and two thousand on
the north, with
the city in the center
. These
areas
will
serve
as
larger
pasturelands
for
the cities.
You 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.
Six
of
the cities you give the Levites are
to
be appointed
as
cities of refuge, to
which a
manslayer may
flee .
In
addition
to these,
give the
Levites
forty-two other
cities.
The 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.
The total
number
of
cities you give the Levites will
be forty-eight ,
with their corresponding
pasturelands
.
All
the cities which
you shall
give to
the Levites shall
be forty-eight cities;
them
[shall
you
give]
with their suburbs
.
The cities that
you apportion
from
the
territory
of the Israelites
should
be
given
to
the
Levites
in
proportion
to
the inheritance
of each
tribe:
more
from a
larger
tribe
and less
from a
smaller
one
. ”
Concerning
the cities which
you shall
give
of the possession
of
the children
of Israel,
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
.
Then
the
LORD
said
to Moses,
Yahweh
spoke
to Moses, saying,
“
Speak to the Israelites
and tell them :
When you cross
the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Speak to the children
of
Israel,
and tell them ,
When you pass
over
the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
designate
cities to serve
as
your
cities of refuge, so
that a
person
who kills someone
unintentionally
may flee there.
then
you
shall
appoint
you
cities to be
cities of refuge for
you
, that the
manslayer
who kills any
person
unwittingly
may flee there.
You
are
to
have
these
cities as
a
refuge from the avenger, so
that the manslayer will
not die until he stands trial
before the assembly
.
The
cities shall
be
to
you
for
refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die ,
until he stands before the congregation
for
judgment
.
The cities you select
will
be your
six cities of refuge.
The cities which
you shall
give
shall
be for
you
six cities of refuge.
Select
three cities across
the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as
cities of refuge.
You
shall
give
three cities beyond
the Jordan ,
and three cities
shall
you
give
in the land of Canaan ;
they
shall
be
cities of refuge.
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.
For the children
of
Israel,
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.
If ,
however,
anyone
strikes
a
person
with an iron object
and
kills
him
, he is a murderer ;
the murderer must
surely be put to death.
But
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.
Or
if anyone
has
in his
hand a stone
of
deadly
size
, and he strikes
and
kills
another
, he is a murderer ;
the murderer must
surely be put to death.
If 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.
If anyone
has
in
his
hand
a deadly
object
of wood, and he strikes
and
kills
another
, he is a murderer ;
the murderer must
surely be put to death.
Or
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.
The avenger of blood is
to
put the murderer to death ;
when he finds
him, he is
to
kill
him.
The avenger of blood shall
himself
put the murderer to death :
when he meets
him, he shall
put
him to
death
.
Likewise,
if anyone
maliciously
pushes
another
or intentionally
throws
an
object
at him and
kills
him
,
If he
thrust
him
of
hatred,
or hurled
at him, lying
in
wait,
so
that
he
died,
or if
in hostility
he
strikes
him with his hand and
he
dies
, the
one
who struck him must
surely be put to death; he is a murderer .
When
the avenger of blood finds
the murderer, he is
to
kill
him.
or 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.
But if anyone
pushes
a
person
suddenly ,
without hostility
, or throws
an
object
at
him unintentionally
,
But if he
thrust
him
suddenly without enmity
, or hurled
on
him anything
without
lying
in
wait
,
or without
looking
drops
a
heavy
stone that
kills
him, but
he was not an
enemy and
did
not
intend
to
harm
him
,
or 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;
then the congregation must
judge between the slayer
and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances .
then the congregation shall
judge between the striker
and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances ;
The assembly
is
to
protect
the manslayer from
the hand of the avenger of blood .
Then
the assembly
will
return
him to the
city of refuge to
which
he fled ,
and he must
live
there
until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
and
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 high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
But if the manslayer ever
goes
outside
the limits
of the
city of refuge to
which
he fled
But if the manslayer shall
at
any
time
go
beyond
the border
of his
city of refuge ,
where
he flees,
and the avenger of blood finds
him outside of his city of refuge and
kills
him
, then
the avenger will
not be guilty of bloodshed
and 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,
because the
manslayer
must
remain
in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest .
Only
after the death of the high priest may
he
return to
the land he
owns
.
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 into
the land of
his
possession
.
This
will
be a statutory
ordinance for
you
for
the
generations
to come,
wherever
you live
.
These
things
shall
be for
a statute
[and]
ordinance to you throughout
your
generations
in
all
your
dwellings
.
If
anyone
kills a
person, the murderer is
to
be put
to
death
on
the testimony
of the
witnesses .
But no
one is
to
be
put
to
death
based
on
the
testimony
of
a
lone
witness.
Whoever
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
.
You are
not
to
accept
a
ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves
to
die
; he must
surely be put to death.
Moreover
you shall
take
no
ransom for the life of a murderer who is
guilty
of
death
; but
he shall
surely be put to death.
Nor
should
you accept
a
ransom for the
person
who flees
to a
city of refuge and
allow
him
to return
and
live
on
his
own
land before
the death of the high
priest.
You 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 priest.
Do
not pollute the land where
you live,
for bloodshed
pollutes the land ,
and no atonement
can be made for the land on
which
the blood is shed, except
by the blood of the
one
who shed it.
So
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.
Do
not defile the land where
you live
and
where
I dwell .
For I, the
LORD
, dwell among
the Israelites
. ”
You
shall
not defile the land which
you inhabit,
in
the
midst
of
which
I dwell :
for I, Yahweh
, dwell in
the midst
of
the
children
of
Israel
.
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