Numbers 35:15

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

16But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:49The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from a strange country who is living with you.

Numbers 15:16The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you.

Galatians 3:28There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 35:10-34

The Cities of Refuge. ( b. c. 1452.) 9 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan; 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. 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. 13 And of these cities which ye shall give… Read the whole commentary →

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