Verse 19
Numbers 35:19
Bible in Basic English
19
He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
גֹּאֵ֣ל הַ/דָּ֔ם ה֥וּא יָמִ֖ית אֶת הָ/רֹצֵ֑חַ בְּ/פִגְע/וֹ ב֖/וֹ ה֥וּא יְמִיתֶֽ/נּוּ
English Translation
The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him; he shall put him to death.
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Chapter 35 Context
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And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,
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Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, tow...
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These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and...
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Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.
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The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two...
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And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life ma...
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Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.
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And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater nu...
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And the Lord said to Moses,
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Say to the children of Israel, when you have gone over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
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Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in...
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In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overt...
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Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;
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Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.
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For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six...
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But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of l...
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Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is...
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Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of lif...
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He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when h...
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If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him,...
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Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to d...
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But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent somet...
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Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothin...
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Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who ha...
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And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the rig...
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But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,
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And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will n...
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Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but afte...
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These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.
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Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the...
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Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is deat...
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And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of lettin...
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So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is n...
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Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am presen...
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