12The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.


In Context

9 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

10 |Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

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

12 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

13 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

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 35:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:12And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

35:12They 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

35:12And 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

35:12And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:12And ye shall have these cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he have stood before the assembly in judgment.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

35:12And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

35:12And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the man-slayer may not die, until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

35:12and the cities have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer, and the man-slayer doth not die till his standing before the company for judgment.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

35:12And they shall be to you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.