Numbers 35:13
11 designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
12 You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
14 Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
15 These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
- KJV
- And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.
- WEB
- The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
- ASV
- And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
- DARBY
- And the cities that ye shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you.
- BLB
- And of the cities that you⁺ give, six will be to you⁺ cities of refuge.
- ÅB
- Og de av deres byer som dere skal gi til tilfluktsstæder, skal være seks i tallet.
- OTB
- De seks byene dere gir skal være deres tilfluktsbyer.
- B1930
- Og de av eders byer som I skal gi til tilfluktsstæder, skal være seks i tallet.