Numbers 35

 1 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoke to Drawn (Moses) in the plains of Of His Father (Moab) by The Descender (Jordan) near Its Moon (Jericho), saying:

 

2 Command the children of God Prevails (Israel), that they give to the Children of Joined To (Levites) of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in. You shall give also to the Children of Joined To (Levites) suburbs for the cities round about them.

 

3 The cities shall be for them to dwell in, and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

 

4 The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Children of Joined To (Levites), shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

 

5 You shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.

 

6 Among the cities which you shall give to the Children of Joined To (Levites) there shall be six cities for refuge, which you shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee there: and to them, you shall add forty-two cities.

 

7 So all the cities which you shall give to the Children of Joined To (Levites) shall be forty-eight cities, with their suburbs.

 

8 The cities which you shall give shall be of the possession of the children of God Prevails (Israel): from them that have many you shall give many; but from them that have few, you shall give few: every one shall give of his cities to the Children of Joined To (Levites) according to his inheritance which he inherits.

 

9 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoke to Drawn (Moses), saying:

 

10 Speak to the children of God Prevails (Israel), and say to them: When you come over Descender (Jordan) into the land of Canaan;

 

11 Then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee there, who kills any person unintentionally.

 

12 They shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer dies not until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

 

13 These six cities you give shall be for refuge.

 

14 You shall give three cities on this side Descender (Jordan), and three cities the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.

 

15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of God Prevails (Israel), and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that kills any person unintentionally may flee there.

 

16 If he hits him with an instrument of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

 

17 If he hits him by throwing a stone, and he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

 

18 Or if he hits him with a hand weapon of wood, wherewith he dies, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

 

19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meets him, he shall slay him.

 

20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he dies;

 

21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he dies: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.

 

22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him anything without laying of wait,

 

23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he dies, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

 

24 Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:

 

25 And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, where he fled: and he shall abide in it to the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

 

26 But if the slayer shall at any time come outside the border of the city of his refuge, which he fled to;

 

27 And the revenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

 

28 Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return to the land of his possession.

 

29 So these things shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

 

30 Whosoever kills any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

 

31 Moreover you shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

 

32 You shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

 

33 So you shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

 

34 Defile not the land which you shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) dwells among the children of God Prevails (Israel).