Numbers 35:11

and have prepared cities for yourselves—they are cities of refuge to you—then a manslayer, striking a person through ignorance, has fled there,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When you are passing over the Jordan to the land of Canaan,

12and the cities have been for a refuge to you from the redeemer, and the manslayer does not die until his standing before the congregation for judgment.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:13as for him who has not laid wait, but God has brought [him] to his hand, I have even set a place for you to where he flees.

Numbers 35:22And if, in an instant, without enmity, he has pushed him, or has cast any instrument at him without lying in wait,

Deuteronomy 19:1“When your God YHWH cuts off the nations whose land your God YHWH is giving to you, and you have dispossessed them, and dwelt in their cities and in their houses,

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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