Devine Scripture

Numbers 35:11

Numbers chapter 35 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

Context

v.10Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

v.11This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 21:13

    And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

  • Deuteronomy 4:42

    that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

  • Joshua 20:2

    Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by Moses,

  • Numbers 35:22

    But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,

  • Deuteronomy 19:1

    When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

  • Numbers 35:6

    And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and two cities.