Numbers 35:12

New King James Version

They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

And now the whole family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may execute him for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they would extinguish my ember that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”

Numbers 35:13

And of the cities which you give, you shall have six cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:19

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

Deuteronomy 19:4

“And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him in time past—

Deuteronomy 19:6

lest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past.

Joshua 20:2

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,

Joshua 20:9

These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger who dwelt among them, that whoever killed a person accidentally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation.