Numbers 35:12

Legacy Standard Bible

And the cities shall be for you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

And behold, the whole family has risen against your servant-woman, and they say, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they will extinguish my coal which remains, so as to leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Numbers 35:13

And the cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:19

The blood avenger himself shall put the murderer to death; he shall put him to death when he meets him.

Deuteronomy 19:4

“Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he strikes down his friend without premeditation, not hating him previously—

Deuteronomy 19:6

lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer when his heart is angry, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike down his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.

Joshua 20:2

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘Designate the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses,

Joshua 20:9

These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns among them, that whoever strikes down any person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.