Verse 2
Numbers 35:2
Free Bible Version
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“Order the Israelites to provide from their land allocation towns for the Levites to live in and pastures around the towns.
Original Language Text
hebrew
צַו֮ אֶת בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ וְ/נָתְנ֣וּ לַ/לְוִיִּ֗ם מִֽ/נַּחֲלַ֛ת אֲחֻזָּתָ֖/ם עָרִ֣ים לָ/שָׁ֑בֶת וּ/מִגְרָ֗שׁ לֶֽ/עָרִים֙ סְבִיבֹ֣תֵי/הֶ֔ם תִּתְּנ֖וּ לַ/לְוִיִּֽם
English Translation
Command the children of Israel and give to the Levites cities to dwell in, and the surrounding pasture lands of the cities you shall give to the Levites.
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Chapter 35 Context
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The Lord spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan opposite Jericho. He told him,
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“Order the Israelites to provide from their land allocation towns for the Levites to live in and pas...
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The towns are for them to live in, and the pastures will be for their herds and their flocks—for all...
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Measure two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on...
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Six of the towns you give the Levites are to be sanctuary towns, where a person who kills someone ca...
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The total number of towns you are to give the Levites is forty-eight, along with their pastures.
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The towns that you allocate to be given to the Levites from the territory of the Israelites will be...
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The Lord told Moses,
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“Tell the Israelites: ‘When you cross over the Jordan into Canaan,
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choose towns as your sanctuary towns, so a person who kills someone by mistake may run there.
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These towns will be for you places of sanctuary from those seeking revenge, so that the killer will...
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These six cities will be places of sanctuary for the Israelites and for foreigners or settlers among...
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But if anyone deliberately hits someone with something made of iron and kills them, that person is a...
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If anyone picks up something made of stone that could be used as a weapon and hits someone with it,...
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If anyone picks up something made of wood that could be used as a weapon and hits someone with it, a...
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The avenger is to execute the murderer. When he finds the murderer, he is to kill him.
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Similarly, if anyone hates someone and knocks them down or deliberately throws something at them, an...
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or if someone hits another with his hand and they die, the one who hit him must be executed because...
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But if anyone knocks someone else down without meaning to and without hating them, or throws somethi...
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or carelessly drops a heavy stone that kills them, but not as an enemy or intending to harm them,
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The court is to protect the killer from being attacked by the avenger and must return him to the san...
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But if the killer ever leaves the limits of the sanctuary town where he ran to,
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and the avenger finds him outside his sanctuary town and kills him, then the avenger will not be gui...
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because the killer has to stay in his sanctuary town until the death of the high priest. Only after...
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If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be executed based on the evidence given by witnesses, p...
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You are not to accept payment instead of executing a murderer who has been found guilty—they must be...
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Don't pollute the land where you live because bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land where blood...
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Don't make the land impure where you live because I live there too. I am the Lord, and I live with t...
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