Verse 14
Numbers 35:14
Free Bible Version
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If anyone picks up something made of stone that could be used as a weapon and hits someone with it, and kills them, that person is a murderer and must be executed.
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֵ֣ת שְׁלֹ֣שׁ הֶ/עָרִ֗ים תִּתְּנוּ֙ מֵ/עֵ֣בֶר לַ/יַּרְדֵּ֔ן וְ/אֵת֙ שְׁלֹ֣שׁ הֶֽ/עָרִ֔ים תִּתְּנ֖וּ בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן עָרֵ֥י מִקְלָ֖ט תִּהְיֶֽינָה
English Translation
You shall give three cities across the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
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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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