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Text -- Numbers 35:13-34 (NET)
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35:13 These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge .
35:14 “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 .
35:15 These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites , and for the foreigner , and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there .
35:16 “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 .
35:17 If 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 .
35:18 Or 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 .
35:19 The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer ; when he meets him, he must kill him.
35:20 “But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally so that he dies ,
35:21 or 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.
35:22 “But if he strikes him suddenly , without enmity , or throws anything at him unintentionally ,
35:23 or 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 ,
35:24 then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions .
35:25 The 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 .
35:26 But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled ,
35:27 and 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 ,
35:28 because 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 .
35:29 So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations , in all the places where you live .
35:30 “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 .
35:31 Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death ; he must surely be put to death .
35:32 And 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 .
35:33 “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.
35:34 Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit , in which I live , for I the Lord live among the Israelites .”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
REFUGE, CITIES OF |
Homicide |
MURDER |
EZEKIEL, 2 |
PUNISHMENTS |
Moab |
PENTATEUCH, 2B |
COURTS, JUDICIAL |
City |
JOSHUA (2) |
Refuge |
LAW OF MOSES |
ASSASSINATION |
Avenger of Blood |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
MURRAIN |
Punishment |
MANSLAYER |
Blood |
Witness |
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NET Notes: Num 35:16 the verb is the preterite of “die.” The sentence has :“if…he strikes him and he dies.” The vav (ו) consecutive is ...
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NET Notes: Num 35:19 The participle גֹּאֵל (go’el) is the one who protects the family by seeking vengeance for a crime. This is t...
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