Numbers 35 WEB

Numbers 35:1 (WEB)
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Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

Numbers 35:2 (WEB)
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Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the Levites.

Numbers 35:3 (WEB)
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The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

Numbers 35:4 (WEB)
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The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits round about.

Numbers 35:5 (WEB)
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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 midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

Numbers 35:6 (WEB)
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The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

Numbers 35:7 (WEB)
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All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; them [shall you give] with their suburbs.

Numbers 35:8 (WEB)
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Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many; and from the few you shall take few: everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.

Numbers 35:9 (WEB)
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Numbers 35:10 (WEB)
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Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Numbers 35:11 (WEB)
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then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Numbers 35:12 (WEB)
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The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

Numbers 35:13 (WEB)
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The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:14 (WEB)
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You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:15 (WEB)
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For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Numbers 35:16 (WEB)
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But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:17 (WEB)
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If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:18 (WEB)
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Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:19 (WEB)
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The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

Numbers 35:20 (WEB)
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If he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

Numbers 35:21 (WEB)
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or in enmity struck him with his hand, so that he died; he who struck him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

Numbers 35:22 (WEB)
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But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

Numbers 35:23 (WEB)
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or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

Numbers 35:24 (WEB)
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then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

Numbers 35:25 (WEB)
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and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Numbers 35:26 (WEB)
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But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

Numbers 35:27 (WEB)
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and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

Numbers 35:28 (WEB)
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because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

Numbers 35:29 (WEB)
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These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Numbers 35:30 (WEB)
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Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

Numbers 35:31 (WEB)
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Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:32 (WEB)
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You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

Numbers 35:33 (WEB)
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So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Numbers 35:34 (WEB)
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You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.