Numbers:35

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* And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho , saying , * Command the sons of Israel , that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in ; and suburbs for the cities round about them you (note :){+}(:note ) will give to the Levites . * And the cities they will have to dwell in ; and their suburbs will be for their cattle , and for their substance , and for all their beasts . * And the suburbs of the cities , which you (note :){+}(:note ) will give to the Levites , will be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about . * And you (note :){+}(:note ) will measure outside the city for the east side two thousand cubits , and for the south side two thousand cubits , and for the west side two thousand cubits , and for the north side two thousand cubits , the city being in the midst . This will be to them the suburbs of the cities . * And the cities which you (note :){+}(:note ) will give to the Levites , they will be the six cities of refuge , which you {+} will give for the manslayer to flee to : and besides them you {+} will give forty and two cities . * All the cities which you (note :){+}(:note ) will give to the Levites will be forty and eight cities ; them [you {+} will give ] with their suburbs . * And concerning the cities which you (note :){+}(:note ) will give of the possession of the sons of Israel , from the many you {+} will take many ; and from the few you {+} will take few : every one according to his inheritance which he inherits will give of his cities to the Levites . * And Yahweh spoke to Moses , saying , * Speak to the sons of Israel , and say to them , When you (note :){+}(:note ) pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan , * then you (note :){+}(:note ) will appoint yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you {+}, that the manslayer that kills any person unintentionally may flee there . * And the cities will be to you (note :){+}(:note ) for refuge from the avenger , that the manslayer will not die , until he stands before the congregation for judgment . * And the cities which you (note :){+}(:note ) will give will be for you {+} six cities of refuge . * You (note :){+}(:note ) will give three cities beyond the Jordan , and three cities you {+} will give in the land of Canaan ; they will be cities of refuge . * For the sons of Israel , and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them , will these six cities be for refuge ; that everyone who kills any person unintentionally may flee there . * But if he struck him with an instrument of iron , so that he died , he is a murderer : the murderer will surely be put to death . * And if he struck him with a stone in the hand , by which a man may die , and he died , he is a murderer : the murderer will surely be put to death . * Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand , by which a man may die , and he died , he is a murderer : the murderer will surely be put to death . * The avenger of blood will himself put the murderer to death : when he meets him , he will put him to death . * And if he thrusts him of hatred , or hurled at him , lying in wait , so that he died , * or in enmity struck him with his hand , so that he died ; he who struck him will surely be put to death ; he is a murderer : the avenger of blood will put the murderer to death , when he meets him . * But if he thrusts him suddenly without enmity , or hurled on him anything without lying in wait , * or with any stone , by which a man may die , not seeing him , and cast it on him , so that he died , and he wasn 't his enemy , neither sought his harm ; * then the congregation will judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances ; * and the congregation will deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood , and the congregation will restore him to his city of refuge , where he has fled : and he will dwell in it until the death of the high priest , who was anointed with the holy oil . * But if the manslayer will at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge , where he flees , * and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge , and the avenger of blood slays the manslayer ; he will not be guilty of blood , * because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest : but after the death of the high priest the manslayer will return into the land of his possession . * And these things will be for a statute [and ] ordinance to you (note :){+}(:note ) throughout your {+} generations in all your {+} dwellings . * Whoever kills any person , the murderer will be slain at the mouth of witnesses : but one witness will not testify against any person that he die . * Moreover you (note :){+}(:note ) will take no ransom for the life of a murderer , who is guilty of death ; but he will surely be put to death . * And you (note :){+}(:note ) will take no ransom for someone to flee to his city of refuge , to come back to dwell in the land , until the death of the priest . * So you (note :){+}(:note ) will not pollute the land in which you {+} are : for blood , it pollutes the land ; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it , but by the blood of him who shed it . * And you will not defile the land which you (note :){+}(:note ) inhabit , in the midst of which I stay : for I , Yahweh , stay in the midst of the sons of Israel .

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