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Numbers 35:11

World English Bible

then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

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Numbers 35:11 in other translations

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

Numbers 35:11 · American Standard Version

Numbers 35:11 in context

  1. 9Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  2. 10“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
  3. 11then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
  4. 12The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
  5. 13The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.