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Numbers 35:31 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death. "
Numbers 35:31
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
29 “‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
30 “‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies.
31 “‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.
32 “‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest.
33 “‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
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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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