11Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.


In Context

8 And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.

9 The Lord said to Moses:

10 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan,

11 Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.

12 And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.

13 And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,

Numbers 35:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:11Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

35:11select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

35:11then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:11then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

35:11then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the manslayer which killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:11Then ye shall appoint for you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, who killeth any person at unawares.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:11then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

35:11and have prepared to yourselves cities — cities of refuge they are to you — then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:11Then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which kills any person at unawares.