Numbers 35:12

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

Behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.

Numbers 35:13

The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

Deuteronomy 19:4

This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;

Deuteronomy 19:6

lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

Joshua 20:2

Speak to the children of Yisra'el, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moshe,

Joshua 20:9

These were the appointed cities for all the children of Yisra'el, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.