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


In Context

8 The towns you give the Levites from the land the Israelites possess are to be given in proportion to the inheritance of each tribe: Take many towns from a tribe that has many, but few from one that has few."

9 Then the Lord said to Moses:

10 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you cross the Jordan into Canaan,

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

12 They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that a person accused of murder may not die before he stands trial before the assembly.

13 These six towns you give will be your cities of refuge.

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

35:11Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.

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.