Numbers 35:11 Cross References - MKJV

¹¹ then you shall choose cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the slayer who kills any person through error may flee there.

¹³ And if a man does not lie in wait, but God delivers him into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

⁶ And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which you shall appoint for the manslayer, so that he may flee there. And you shall add forty-two cities to them.

²² But if he thrusts him suddenly without hatred, or has thrown something on him without lying in wait, ²³ or with any stone with which a man may die if he does not see, and throws it upon him so that he dies, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm, ²⁴ then the congregation shall judge between the one who kills and the revenger of blood according to these judgments. ²⁵ And the congregation shall deliver the one who kills out of the hand of the revenger of blood. And the congregation shall send him back to the city of his refuge, to which he had fled. And he shall stay in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

⁴² so that the slayer might flee there, he who should kill his neighbor through error and who did not hate him in times past, and he fleeing to one of these cities might live.

¹ When Jehovah your God has cut off the nations whose land Jehovah your God gives you, and when you take their place and live in their cities and in their houses, ² you shall separate three cities for you in the middle of your land, which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it. ³ You shall prepare you a way, and divide the borders of your land which Jehovah your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, so that every slayer may flee there. ⁴ And this is the case of the slayer who shall flee there that he may live: whoever in error kills his neighbor whom he did not hate him before, ⁵ even he who goes into the wood with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand brings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the wood and lights on his neighbor so that he dies; he shall flee to one of those cities and live, ⁶ so that the avenger of the blood may not pursue the slayer while his heart is hot, and overtake him because the way is long, and kill him, and he had no sentence worthy of death, for he did not hate him in time past. ⁷ Therefore I command you saying, You shall separate three cities for you. ⁸ And if Jehovah your God makes your border larger, as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers; ⁹ if you will keep all these commandments which I command you today, to do them, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add to yourself three more cities to these three, ¹⁰ so that innocent blood may not be shed in your land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, and blood may not be on you. ¹¹ But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes his life from him, so that he dies, and flees to one of these cities, ¹² then the elders of his city shall send and bring him away from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood so that he may die. ¹³ Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

² Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Appoint cities of refuge for you, as I have spoken to you by the hand of Moses;