~Numbers 35:1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of Moabby the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
~Numbers 35:2 Command the children of Israel, that they give untothe Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in;and suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye give unto theLevites.
~Numbers 35:3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and theirsuburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for alltheir beasts.
~Numbers 35:4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall giveunto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward athousand cubits round about.
~Numbers 35:5 And ye shall measure without the city for the east sidetwo thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, andfor the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side twothousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them thesuburbs of the cities.
~Numbers 35:6 And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites,they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for themanslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and twocities.
~Numbers 35:7 All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shallbe forty and eight cities; them [shall ye give] with their suburbs.
~Numbers 35:8 And concerning the cities which ye shall give of thepossession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall takemany; and from the few ye shall take few: every one according to hisinheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto theLevites.
~Numbers 35:9 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
~Numbers 35:10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
~Numbers 35:11 then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refugefor you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly mayflee thither.
~Numbers 35:12 And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from theavenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before thecongregation for judgment.
~Numbers 35:13 And the cities which ye shall give shall be for yousix cities of refuge.
~Numbers 35:14 Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, andthree cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities ofrefuge.
~Numbers 35:15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger andfor the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; thatevery one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
~Numbers 35:16 But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, sothat he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put todeath.
~Numbers 35:17 And if he smote him with a stone in the hand,whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderershall surely be put to death.
~Numbers 35:18 Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in thehand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: themurderer shall surely be put to death.
~Numbers 35:19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murdererto death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.
~Numbers 35:20 And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him,lying in wait, so that he died,
~Numbers 35:21 or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that hedied; he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer:the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when hemeeteth him.
~Numbers 35:22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, orhurled upon him anything without lying in wait,
~Numbers 35:23 or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeinghim not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not hisenemy, neither sought his harm;
~Numbers 35:24 then the congregation shall judge between the smiterand the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;
~Numbers 35:25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer outof the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shallrestore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shalldwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointedwith the holy oil.
~Numbers 35:26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond theborder of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth,
~Numbers 35:27 and the avenger of blood find him without theborder of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay themanslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
~Numbers 35:28 because he should have remained in his city ofrefuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the highpriest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
~Numbers 35:29 And these things shall be for a statute [and]ordinance unto you throughout your generations in all yourdwellings.
~Numbers 35:30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall beslain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testifyagainst any person that he die.
~Numbers 35:31 Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of amurderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
~Numbers 35:32 And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled tohis city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, untilthe death of the priest.
~Numbers 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: forblood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the landfor the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
~Numbers 35:34 And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit,in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of thechildren of Israel
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