Numbers 35:12

Young's Literal Translation 1898

and the cities have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer, and the man-slayer doth not die till his standing before the company for judgment.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

and lo, the whole family hath risen against thy maid-servant, and say, Give up him who smiteth his brother, and we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he hath slain, and we destroy also the heir; and they have quenched my coalwhich is left — so as not to set to my husband a name and remnant on the face of the ground.’

Numbers 35:13

‘As to the cities which ye give — six [are] cities of refuge to you;

Numbers 35:19

‘The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

Deuteronomy 19:4

‘And this [is] the matter of the man-slayer who fleeth thither, and hath lived: He who smiteth his neighbour unknowingly, and is not hating him heretofore,

Deuteronomy 19:6

lest the redeemer of blood pursue after the man-slayer when his heart is hot, and hath overtaken him (because the way is great), and hath smitten him — the life, and he hath no sentence of death, for he is not hating him heretofore;

Joshua 20:2

‘Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Give for you cities of refuge, as I have spoken unto you by the hand of Moses,

Joshua 20:9

These have been cities of meeting for all the sons of Israel, and for a sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting life inadvertently, and he doth not die by the hand of the redeemer of blood till his standing before the company.