Numbers 35 (NET)

Numbers 35:1¹Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the rift valley plains of Moab along the Jordan near Jericho. He said:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 22:1Num 26:63Num 31:12Num 33:50Num 36:13

Numbers 35:2²“Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 14:3-4Ezek 48:81 Cor 9:10-14Ezek 45:1-8Ezek 48:22Josh 21:2-42Lev 25:32-34

Numbers 35:3³Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 11:14Ezek 45:2Josh 21:11

Numbers 35:4⁴The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 35:5⁵“You must measure from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 35:6⁶Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 21:13Josh 21:3Josh 21:21Josh 21:27Josh 21:32Josh 21:36Josh 21:38Ps 9:9Deut 4:41-43Heb 6:18

Numbers 35:7⁷“So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 6:54-81Josh 21:3-42

Numbers 35:8⁸The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 26:54Num 33:54Exod 16:18Josh 21:1-422 Cor 8:13-14Deut 33:8-11Exod 32:28-29Gen 49:7

Numbers 35:9⁹Then the Lord spoke to Moses:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 35:10¹⁰“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you cross over the Jordan River into the land of Canaan,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 12:9Deut 19:1-2Josh 20:2-6Lev 14:34Lev 25:2Num 34:2

Numbers 35:11¹¹you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 21:13Josh 20:2Num 35:6Deut 19:1-13Deut 4:42Num 35:22-25

Numbers 35:12¹²And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 19:6Josh 20:3-62 Sam 14:7Josh 20:9Deut 19:11-12Num 35:19Num 35:24-27

Numbers 35:13¹³These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 35:14¹⁴“‘You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 19:8-10Deut 4:41-43Josh 20:7-9

Numbers 35:15¹⁵These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the resident foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 15:16Exod 12:49Gal 3:28Lev 24:22Rom 3:29

Numbers 35:16¹⁶“‘But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 24:17Deut 19:11-13Exod 21:12-14Gen 9:5-6Num 35:22-24Num 35:30-33

Numbers 35:17¹⁷If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 21:18

Numbers 35:18¹⁸Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 35:19¹⁹The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 19:12Deut 19:6Josh 20:3Josh 20:5Num 35:21Num 35:12Num 35:24Num 35:27

Numbers 35:20²⁰“‘But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 21:14Deut 19:112 Sam 20:102 Sam 3:27Gen 4:81 Kgs 2:31-331 Kgs 2:5-61 Sam 18:10-111 Sam 18:251 Sam 19:9-12

Numbers 35:21²¹or with enmity he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death, for he is a murderer. The avenger of blood must kill the murderer when he meets him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 35:22²²“But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 21:13Num 35:11Deut 19:5Josh 20:3Josh 20:5

Numbers 35:23²³or with any stone large enough that a man could die, without seeing him, and throws it at him, and he dies, even though he was not his enemy nor sought his harm,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 35:24²⁴then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Josh 20:6Num 35:12

Numbers 35:25²⁵The community must deliver the slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the community must restore him to the town of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the consecrated oil.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 29:7Heb 10:19-22Heb 7:25-28Josh 20:6Lev 21:10Lev 4:3Rom 3:24-26Eph 2:16-18Heb 4:14-16Heb 9:12-15

Numbers 35:26²⁶But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Numbers 35:27²⁷and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 19:10Deut 19:6Exod 22:2

Numbers 35:28²⁸because the slayer should have stayed in his town of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to the land of his possessions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 11:23Acts 27:31Heb 10:26-30Heb 10:39Heb 3:14Heb 6:4-8Heb 9:11-12Heb 9:15-17John 15:4-6

Numbers 35:29²⁹So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 27:11Num 27:1

Numbers 35:30³⁰“Whoever kills any person, the murderer must be put to death by the testimony of witnesses, but one witness cannot testify against any person to cause him to be put to death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 10:28Deut 19:15Matt 18:162 Cor 13:11 Tim 5:19John 8:17-18Deut 17:6-7John 7:51Num 35:16Rev 11:3

Numbers 35:31³¹Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 2:28-342 Sam 12:13Deut 19:11-13Exod 21:14Gen 9:5-6Ps 51:14

Numbers 35:32³²And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:12Gal 2:21Gal 3:10-13Gal 3:22Rev 5:9

Numbers 35:33³³“‘You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 11:50-51Ps 106:38Ezek 22:24-27Gen 9:6Hos 4:2-3Isa 26:21Lev 18:25Matt 23:31-352 Kgs 23:262 Kgs 24:4

Numbers 35:34³⁴Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the Lord live among the Israelites.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Num 5:3Ps 135:21Rev 21:272 Cor 6:16-171 Kgs 6:13Exod 25:8Exod 29:45-46Hos 9:3Isa 57:15Lev 20:24-26