Numbers 35:12

Tree of Life Version

They are to be cities for refuge from the avenger, so the manslayer may not die before standing trial before the assembly.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

Now behold, the whole clan has risen against your handmaid and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother so we may put him to death, for the life of his brother whom he slew.’ So they will also destroy the heir and extinguish my one remaining ember, leaving to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth!”

Numbers 35:13

The six cities you designate are to be your cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:19

The blood avenger himself may put the murderer to death. When he finds him, he is to kill him.

Deuteronomy 19:4

Now this is the case of the one who kills, who may flee there and live—whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally and did not hate him in the past—

Deuteronomy 19:6

Otherwise if the way is long, the avenger of the blood, while his heart is hot, may chase the manslayer, catch up to him and strike him dead. Yet no death sentence is on him, since he did not hate him in the past.

Joshua 20:2

“Speak to Bnei-Yisrael saying, ‘Designate your cities of refuge, about which I spoke to you through Moses.

Joshua 20:9

These were the appointed cities for all Bnei-Yisrael and for the outsider who is dwelling among them, so that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there and not die by the hand of the blood avenger, before standing trial before the congregation.