Numbers 35:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹² You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger,  so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And the cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he has had a fair trial before the congregation.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.

Common English Bible

¹² The cities will be for you a place of refuge from the close relative of the dead. The person who killed someone may not be put to death until he stands before the community for judgment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And when a fugitive is in these, the kinsman of the deceased shall not be able to kill him, until he stands in the sight of the multitude and his case is judged.

Numbers 35:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant and said, “Hand over the one who killed his brother so we may put him to death for the life of the brother he murdered. We will eliminate the heir! ” They would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on earth.’

Numbers 35:13

The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood himself is to kill the murderer; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

Deuteronomy 19:4

‘Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbour accidentally without previously hating him:

Deuteronomy 19:6

Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger  might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die,  since he did not previously hate his neighbour.

Joshua 20:2

‘Tell the Israelites: Select your cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

Joshua 20:9

These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and the foreigners residing among them,  so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the assembly.