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Numbers 35
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by
Jordan near Jericho, saying,
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto
the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand
cubits round about.
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- And ye shall measure from without the city on the east
side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on
the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits;
and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the
cities.
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- 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.
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- So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites
shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.
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- And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the
possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give
many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of
his cities unto the Levites according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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- Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,
When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall
ye have for refuge.
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- Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and
three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of
refuge.
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- These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the
children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them:
that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
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- And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that
he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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- And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he
may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death.
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- Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood,
wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely
be put to death.
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- The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer:
when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
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- But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying
of wait, that he die;
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- Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he
that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the
revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
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- But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have
cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
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- Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him
not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought
his harm:
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- Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and
the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
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- And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the
hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the
city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the
death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
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- But if the slayer shall at any time come without the
border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
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- And the revenger of blood find him without the borders
of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall
not be guilty of blood:
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- Because he should have remained in the city of his
refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high
priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
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- So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto
you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
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- Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to
death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any
person to cause him to die.
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- Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a
murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
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- And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled
to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land,
until the death of the priest.
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- So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for
blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that
is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
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- Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit,
wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
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