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The Book of Numbers 35

35 And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab beside the Jordan at Jericho, saying, 2 “Command the sons of Israel, and they shall give to the Levites cities for dwelling from the inheritance of their possession, and you shall give to the Levites pastureland for the cities, all around them. 3 And the cities will be for them for dwelling, and their pastureland will be for their livestock and for their property and for all their living things. 4 And the pasturelands of the cities that you shall give to the Levites shall be from the wall of the city and outward 1, 000 cubits all around. 5 And you shall measure 2, 000 by the cubit from outside of the city toward the corner of the east, and 2, 000 by the cubit to the corner of the south, and 2, 000 by the cubit to the corner of the west, and 2, 000 by the cubit to the corner of the north, and the city will be in the middle. This will be the pastureland of the cities for them. 6 And along with the cities which you shall give to the Levites, you shall give six cities of refuge to which the one who kills may flee, and in addition to them you shall give 42 cities. 7 All the cities that you shall give to the Levites shall be 48 cities, them and their pasturelands. 8 And the cities that you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall increase from with the numerous, and you shall decrease from with the few. A man shall give from his cities to the Levites according to the mouth of his inheritance that he has inherited.”

9 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 11 then you shall choose for yourselves cities; they will be cities of refuge for you, and the one who kills, the one who struck down a person by mistake, shall flee to there. 12 And the cities will be for you for refuge from the avenger, and the one who kills will not die until he stands before the face of the congregation for the judgment. 13 And the cities that you shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you. 14 You shall give three cities from beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge. 15 For the sons of Israel, and for the sojourner, and for the temporary dweller in your midst, these six cities shall be for refuge to flee to, every one who has struck down a person by mistake.

16 And if he struck him down with an object of iron and he died, he is one who murders. The one who murders shall certainly be put to death. 17 And if he struck him down with a stone in hand by which one could die and he died, he is one who murders. The one who murders shall certainly be put to death. 18 Or if he struck him down with an object of wood in hand by which one could die and he died, he is one who murders. The one who murders shall certainly be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood, he shall put the one who murders to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death. 20 And if with hatred he pushes him or throws something at him by lying in wait, and he dies, 21 or if with hostility he strikes him down with his hand, and he dies, you shall certainly put to death the one who strikes down; he is one who murders. The avenger of blood shall put to death the one who murders, when he meets him.

22 And if with suddenness without hostility he pushes him or throws any object at him without lying in wait, 23 or if with any stone by which one could die without seeing he drops it on him and he dies and he was not an enemy to him and was not seeking his harm, 24 then the congregation shall judge between the one who struck down and the avenger of blood in accordance with these judgments. 25 And the congregation shall rescue the one who kills from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall bring him back into the city of his refuge to which he had fled, and he shall dwell in it until the death of the great priest, him whom he anointed with the oil of holiness. 26 And if the one who kills ever goes out of the border of the city of his refuge to which he has fled, 27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the one who kills, there will be no blood against him. 28 For in the city of his refuge he must dwell until the death of the great priest, and after the death of the great priest the one who kills may return to the land of his possession.

29 And these shall be for you as a statute of judgment for your generations in all your dwellings. 30 Every one who strikes down a person, according to the mouth of witnesses he must kill the one who kills. And one witness shall not testify against a person to put to death. 31 And you shall not take a ransom for the life of one who kills, he who is guilty to die, because he shall certainly be put to death. 32 And you shall not take a ransom for the one who flees into the city of his refuge, to return to dwell in the land until the death of the priest. 33 And you shall not pollute the land which you are in because the blood itself pollutes the land. And atonement cannot be made for the land for the blood that is poured out on it except by the blood of the one who poured it out. 34 And you shall not defile the land which you are dwelling in, which I am dwelling in the midst of, because I, Yahweh, am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.’ ”

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