Numbers 35:12

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

And behold, our whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who slew his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew; and so they would destroy the heir also. And so quenching my coal which is left, they would leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the earth.

Numbers 35:13

And of the cities which you give there shall be your six cities for refuge.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood shall himself slay the murderer; when he meets him, he shall slay him.

Deuteronomy 19:4

And this is the case of the slayer who shall flee there in order that he may live. Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, for whom he had no enmity in time past–

Deuteronomy 19:6

Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer while his [mind and] heart are hot with anger and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him even though the slayer was not worthy of death, since he had not been at enmity with him previously.

Joshua 20:2

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

Joshua 20:9

These cities were for all the Israelites and the stranger sojourning among them, that whoever killed a person unintentionally might flee there and not be slain by the avenger of blood until he had been tried before the congregation.