Numbers 35:11
What does Numbers 35:11 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 35:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000then 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 · 1611Then 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 · 1901then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and have prepared to yourselves cities--cities of refuge they are to you--then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.
Context
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.
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