Numbers 35:12 Cross References - Rotherham

¹² So shall the cities serve you for places of refuge from the redeemer,––that the manslayer may not die, until he has stood before the assembly, for judgment.

¹⁹ The blood–redeemer, he, shall put to death the manslayer,––when he lighteth upon him, he, shall put him to death.

²⁴ then shall the assembly judge, between him that smote and the blood–redeemer,––according to these regulations; ²⁵ and the assembly shall rescue the manslayer out of the hand of the blood–redeemer, and the assembly shall restore him unto his city of refuge, whither he had fled,––and he shall dwell therein, until the death of the high priest, who hath been anointed with the hallowing oil. ²⁶ But, if the manslayer, go out, of the bounds of his city of refuge, whereinto he hath fled; ²⁷ and the blood–redeemer, find him, outside the bounds of his city of refuge, then may the blood–redeemer slay the slayer, without being guilty of blood;

⁶ lest the blood redeemer pursue the manslayer, because his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and he smite him so as to take away his life,––he not being worthy of death, seeing that he had not been hating him, aforetime.

¹¹ But, when any man shall be hating his neighbour, and shall lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him so as to take away his life, that he dieth,––and shall then flee into one of these cities, ¹² then shall the elders of his city send and fetch him from thence,––and deliver him into the hand of the blood redeemer, that he die;

³ that the manslayer who slayeth a person by mistake, unwittingly, may flee thither,––so shall they be unto you for refuge from the blood–redeemer, ⁴ and he shall flee unto one of these cities and present himself at the entrance of the gate of the city, and shall speak, in the ears of the elders of that city, his defence,––and they shall take him for protection into the city unto them, and shall give him a place, so shall he dwell with them. ⁵ And, when the blood–redeemer pursueth after him, then shall they not deliver up the manslayer, into his hand,––because, unwittingly, it was that he slew his neighbour, and had not been, cherishing hatred, towards him, aforetime; ⁶ so shall he remain in that city, until he standeth before the assembly, for judgment, until the death of the high–priest who shall be in those days,––then, shall the manslayer return, and enter into his own city, and into his own house, within the city from whence he fled.

⁹ These, were the cities appointed for all the sons of Israel, and for the sojourner who sojourneth in their midst, that whosoever should slay a person by mistake, might flee thither,––and not die by the hand of the blood–redeemer, until he should stand before the assembly.

⁷ Lo! therefore, all the family hath risen up against thy maidservant, and have said: Give up him that hath smitten his brother, that we may put him to death, for the life of his brother, whom he hath slain, that we may destroy, the heir also. So will they quench my ember that is left, and make my husband without name or remainder, on the face of the ground.