World English Bible
Numbers 35:14
“You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.”
Numbers 35:14 in the King James Version
Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.Read Numbers 35:14 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Numbers 35
The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Cross references for Numbers 35:14
- Joshua 20:7-9
They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the ...
- Deuteronomy 19:8-10
If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God...
- Deuteronomy 4:41-43
Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: namely, B...
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