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Numbers 35:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment. "

Numbers 35:12

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10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

11 then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

12 The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.

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Related Verses

Joshua 20:6

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"He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”"

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Joshua 20:9

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"These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation."

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Deuteronomy 19:12

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"then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die."

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Deuteronomy 4:42

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"that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:"

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Leviticus 26:25

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"I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy."

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Judith 3:4

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"Behold, even our cities and those who dwell in them are your servants. Come and deal with them as it is good in your eyes.”"

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Numbers 35:1

"The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,"

Numbers 35:2

"“Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites."

Numbers 35:3

"They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals."

Numbers 35:4

"“The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it."

Numbers 35:5

"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 middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities."

Numbers 35:6

"“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities."

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