Numbers 35:6

“Six of the cities that you give to the descendants of Levi will be cities to which people can run to be safe. If someone accidentally kills someone else, the one who killed that person may run to one of those cities to be safe.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5Also measure ◄3,000 feet/900 meters► in each direction out from the walls of each city. That additional land will be land for their animals outside the walls of the cities.”

7You must also give to the descendants of Levi 42 other cities and the land around those cities, for their animals,.

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Cross References

Numbers 35:13You must set apart six cities to be cities to which someone who killed another person accidentally may run and be safe.

Joshua 20:2“Tell the Israeli people that they should choose some cities to which people can run in order to be safe/protected, like I told Moses that they should do.

Joshua 21:13They allotted to them Hebron, which was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected. They also allotted to the Kohath clan the cities of Libnah,

Joshua 21:27They also allotted towns and the surrounding pastureland to the Gershon clans. Those clans were also descended from Levi. They were allotted two cities from the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Manasseh that is on the east side of the Jordan River. Those cities were Golan in the Bashan region, which was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected, and Be-Eshtarah.

Joshua 21:36From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Reuben they were allotted four cities. They were Bezer, Jahaz,

Psalms 9:9Yahweh will be a refuge for those who are oppressed; yes, he will be like a shelter for them when they have trouble.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 35:2-9

The Cities of the Levites. ( b. c. 1452.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying, 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. 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. 4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye… Read the whole commentary →

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