Numbers 35:12 - English Standard Version 2016 The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
And now the whole clan has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.’ And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”
The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
“This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past—
lest the avenger of blood in hot anger pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him fatally, though the man did not deserve to die, since he had not hated his neighbor in the past.
“Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,
These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.