Numbers 35:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And the cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he has had a fair trial before the congregation.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.

Common English Bible

¹² The cities will be for you a place of refuge from the close relative of the dead. The person who killed someone may not be put to death until he stands before the community for judgment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And when a fugitive is in these, the kinsman of the deceased shall not be able to kill him, until he stands in the sight of the multitude and his case is judged.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.

Numbers 35:12 Références croisées

2 Samuel 14:7

Now the whole family has risen against your servant. They say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he murdered, even if we destroy the heir as well.’ Thus they would quench my one remaining ember and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Numbers 35:13

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

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood is the one who shall put the murderer to death; when they meet, the avenger of blood shall execute the sentence.

Deuteronomy 19:4

“Now this is the case of a homicide who might flee there and live, that is, someone who has killed another person unintentionally when the two had not been at enmity before.

Deuteronomy 19:6

But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before.

Joshua 20:2

“Say to the Israelites: Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,

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.