Numbers 35:27 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁷ 2 The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ and the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ And the avenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge and kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

Common English Bible

²⁷ and the close relative finds him outside the boundary of his refuge city and kills him, he will not be responsible for his blood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ and he has been struck by him who is avenging blood, he who killed him shall not be harmed.

Numbers 35:27 Cross References

Exodus 22:2

If any man hurt a field or a vineyard, and put in his beast to feed upon that which is other men's: he shall restore the best of whatsoever he hath in his own field, or in his vineyard, according to the estimation of the damage.

Numbers 35:26

1 ou shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.

Numbers 35:28

3 Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

Deuteronomy 19:10

5 One witness shall not rise up against any man, whatsoever the sin or wickedness be: but in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall stand.

Deuteronomy 19:6

1 But if any man hating his neighbour, lie in wait for his life, and rise and strike him, and he die, and he flee to one of the cities aforesaid,