Numbers 35:11
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
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.
Note at…: Heb. by error
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.
then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- ye shall appoint
- As the {goel,} or kinsman, had a right to avenge the death of his relation, by slaying the murderer wherever he found him, the appointment of these cities was a humane institution for the protection of the involuntary homicide; for they were designed only for the protection of such.
- Numbers 35:6; Joshua 20:2
- unawares
- Heb. by error.
- Numbers 35:22, 23; Exodus 21:13; Deuteronomy 4:42; Deuteronomy 19:4, 5