Verse 15
Numbers 35:15
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
15
As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לִ/בְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וְ/לַ/גֵּ֤ר וְ/לַ/תּוֹשָׁב֙ בְּ/תוֹכָ֔/ם תִּהְיֶ֛ינָה שֵׁשׁ הֶ/עָרִ֥ים הָ/אֵ֖לֶּה לְ/מִקְלָ֑ט לָ/נ֣וּס שָׁ֔מָּ/ה כָּל מַכֵּה נֶ֖פֶשׁ בִּ/שְׁגָגָֽה
English Translation
For the children of Israel and for the stranger and for the resident among them, there shall be six cities as refuge, to which one may flee who has killed a person unintentionally.
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Chapter 35 Context
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And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against Jeri...
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Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,
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Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs...
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Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:
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Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thous...
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And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugi...
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That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.
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And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them...
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The Lord said to Moses:
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Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jor...
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Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.
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And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill...
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And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,
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Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Chanaan,
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As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who ha...
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If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck : he shall be guilty of murder, and he himse...
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If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same manner.
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If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged by the blood of him that struck him.
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The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall...
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If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing- at him with ill design:
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Or being his enemy, strike; him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: th...
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But if by chance medley, and without hatred,
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And enmity, he do any of these things,
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And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, a...
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The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence...
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If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished,
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And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him.
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For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high priest: and after he i...
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These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your dwellings.
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The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.
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You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.
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The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own...
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Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can...
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And thus shall your possession he cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell am...
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