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Numbers 35:12

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The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

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Numbers 35:12 in other translations

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.

Numbers 35:12 · American Standard Version

Numbers 35:12 in context

  1. 10“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
  2. 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.
  3. 12The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
  4. 13The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
  5. 14You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.