Numbers 35:12

Modern English Version

The cities will be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer does not die until he stands trial before the assembly.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

Now the entire family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they will extinguish my remaining ember, and leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Numbers 35:13

The cities which you designate shall be your six cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood himself will slay the murderer. When he meets him, he will slay him.

Deuteronomy 19:4

This is the word concerning the manslayer who will flee there, so that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, whom he did not hate previously,

Deuteronomy 19:6

Otherwise the avenger of blood might, while he is angry, pursue the manslayer and overtake him (because the way is long) and kill him, even though he was not worthy of death (since he did not hate him previously).

Joshua 20:2

“Say to the Israelites, ‘Choose refuge cities, as I told you through Moses,

Joshua 20:9

These were the cities designated for all the Israelites and resident foreigners living among them, to which anyone who killed someone inadvertently could flee and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation.