Numbers 35:11

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

choose Safe Towns, where a person who has accidentally killed someone can run for protection.

Cross References

Exodus 21:13

But if you did not intend to kill someone, and I, the LORD, let it happen anyway, you may run for safety to a place that I have set aside.

Leviticus 4:2

to say to the community of Israel: Offer a sacrifice to ask forgiveness when you sin by accidentally doing something I have told you not to do.

Leviticus 4:22

Any tribal leader who disobeys me without meaning to is still guilty.

Numbers 35:15

They will be places of protection for anyone who lives in Israel and accidentally kills someone.

Numbers 35:6

Six of the towns you give them will be Safe Towns where a person who has accidentally killed someone can run for protection. But you will also give the Levites forty-two other towns,

Joshua 20:2

When Moses was still alive, I told him to tell the Israelites about the Safe Towns. Now you tell them that it is time to set up these towns.