Numbers 35:11 Cross References - LEB

¹¹ you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.

¹³ But if he did not lie in wait _⌊and it was an accident_⌋,* I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee.

⁶ "All the cities that you will give the Levites will be six cities of refuge, to which the killer can flee; in addition to them you will give forty-two cities.

²² " 'Or if in an instant he shoved him, not in hostility, or threw something at him without intention, ²³ or with any stone, without seeing it dropped on him so that he dies, while he was not seeking his injury, ²⁴ then the community will judge between the striker and between the blood avenger according to these ordinances. ²⁵ The community will deliver the killer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the community will restore him to the city of his refuge to which he fled; and he will live there in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil.

⁴² in order for _⌊a manslayer_⌋* to flee there who has killed his neighbor _⌊without intent_⌋* and was not hating him _⌊previously_⌋,* and so he could flee to one of these cities _⌊and be safe_⌋.*

¹ "When Yahweh your God has _⌊exterminated_⌋* the nations concerning whom Yahweh your God is giving to you their land, and you have dispossessed them, and you have settled in their towns and in their houses, ² you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it. ³ You shall prepare the roads* for yourselves, and you shall divide the regions of your land into thirds that Yahweh your God gives you as a possession, so that _⌊it will be available for any manslayer to flee there_⌋.* ⁴ "Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live there who has killed his neighbor _⌊unintentionally_⌋,* and he did not hate him _⌊previously_⌋.* ⁵ _⌊For example_⌋,* when somebody goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and the iron head slips from the handle of the tool and strikes his neighbor and he dies, then he may flee to one of these cities, and so he may live. ⁶ He does this lest the avenger of blood might pursue after the killer, because _⌊he is hot with anger_⌋* and he overtakes him, because it is a long distance to the city of refuge, and so _⌊he kills him_⌋,* but _⌊he did not deserve a death sentence_⌋,* because he was not hating him _⌊before_⌋.* ⁷ Therefore I am commanding you, _⌊saying_⌋,* 'You shall set apart three cities.' ⁸ Then if Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he swore to your ancestors* and gives* to you all the land that he _⌊promised_⌋* to give to your ancestors,* ⁹ then _⌊if you diligently observe this entire commandment_⌋* that I am commanding you _⌊today_⌋* by loving Yahweh your God and by going* in his ways _⌊at all times_⌋,* then you shall add three more cities for yourselves to these three. ¹⁰ Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed* in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance and thereby bloodguilt would be on you.* ¹¹ But if someone hates* his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up* against him _⌊and murders him_⌋,* and the murderer flees to one of these cities, ¹² then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and they shall give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall be put to death. ¹³ Your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, _⌊so that good will be directed toward you_⌋.*

² "Speak to the _⌊Israelites_⌋,* saying, 'Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through the hand of Moses.