Numbers 35:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that a slayer who kills a person without intent may flee there.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

Common English Bible

¹¹ identify for yourselves cities to be refuge cities, where a person who kills someone by accident may flee.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ discern which cities ought to be for the protection of fugitives who have shed blood unwillingly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.

Numbers 35:11 Cross References

Exodus 21:13

If it was not premeditated but came about by an act of God, then I will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee.

Leviticus 4:2

“Speak to the Israelites, saying: When anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord’s commandments about things not to be done and does any one of them:

Leviticus 4:22

“When a ruler sins, doing unintentionally any one of all the things that by the commandments of the Lord his God ought not to be done and incurs guilt,

Numbers 35:15

These six cities shall serve as refuge for the Israelites, for the resident or transient alien among them, so that anyone who kills a person without intent may flee there.

Numbers 35:6

“The towns that you give to the Levites shall include the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit a slayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two towns.

Deuteronomy 4:42

to which a homicide could flee, someone who unintentionally kills another person, the two not having been at enmity before; the homicide could flee to one of these cities and live:

Joshua 20:2

“Say to the Israelites: Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,