Numbers 35:6

Modern English Version

Among the cities which you will give to the Levites there will be six cities of refuge, which you will appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee there, and to them you will add forty-two cities.

Cross References

Psalm 9:9

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Exodus 21:13

However, if it was not premeditated, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place where he may flee.

Isaiah 4:6

There shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

Numbers 35:5

You will measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, and the city will be in the middle. This will be for them the pasturelands of the cities.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Hebrews 6:18

So that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

Joshua 21:13

To the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron (a refuge city for people who committed manslaughter), Libnah with its pastures,

Joshua 21:21

They gave them Shechem (a refuge city for people who committed manslaughter) in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer,

Joshua 21:27

From the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave to the descendants of Gershon (one of the Levite clans): Golan in Bashan (a refuge city for people who committed manslaughter) and Be Eshterah, together with the grazing lands of each: two cities.

Joshua 21:3

So according to the word of the Lord, out of their inheritance the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their grazing lands.

Joshua 21:32

And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee (a refuge city for people who committed manslaughter), Hammoth Dor, and Kartan, together with the grazing lands of each: three cities.

Joshua 21:36

From the tribe of Reuben they gave Bezer, Jahaz,

Joshua 21:38

From the tribe of Gad they gave Ramoth in Gilead (a refuge city for people who committed manslaughter), Mahanaim,