Numbers 35:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁵ For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge: that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ These six cities shall be a refuge for the Israelites and for the stranger and the temporary resident among them; that anyone who kills any person unintentionally and unawares may flee there.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ These six cities will be refuge for Israelites, immigrants, and temporary residents, as a place to flee for anyone who kills a person by accident.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ as much for the sons of Israel as for newcomers and sojourners, so that anyone who has shed blood unwillingly may flee to these places.

Numbers 35:15 Cross References

Numbers 15:16

One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Galatians 3:28

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female: for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

Romans 3:29

Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:

Leviticus 24:22

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for the homeborn: for I am the LORD your God.

Exodus 12:49

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

Leviticus 4:2

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one shall sin unwittingly, in any of the things which the LORD hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them:

Numbers 35:11

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

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.