Numbers 35:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“The cities that you designate shall be six cities of refuge for you:

Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:57

To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands,

Numbers 35:12

The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, so that the slayer may not die until there is a trial before the congregation.

Numbers 35:14

you shall designate three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:6

“The towns that you give to the Levites shall include the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit a slayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two towns.

Joshua 20:9

These were the cities designated for all the Israelites and for the aliens residing among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so as not to die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until there was a trial before the congregation.