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chapter 35
1
And
the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan,
over against Jericho:
2 Command the children of Israel that they give to the
Levites out of their possessions,
3 Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about:
that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for their cattle and
beasts:
4 Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the
cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:
5 Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and
toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea
also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side
shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst,
and the suburbs without.
6 And among the cities, which you shall give to the
Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed
blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two
cities,
7 That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.
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,
14 Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the
land of Chanaan,
15 As well for the children of Israel as for strangers
and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will.
16 If any man strike with iron, and he die that was
struck : he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.
17 If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he
shall be punished in the same manner.
18 If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be
revenged by the blood of him that struck him.
19 The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the
murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.
20 If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any
thing- at him with ill design:
21 Or being his enemy, strike; him with his hand, and
he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was
slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him.
22 But if by chance medley, and without hatred,
23 And enmity, he do any of these things,
24 And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and
the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:
25 The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the
revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had
fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is
anointed with the holy oil.
26 If the murderer be found without the limits of the
cities that are appointed for the banished,
27 And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood:
he shall not be guilty that killed him.
28 For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city
until the death of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the
manslayer return to his own country.
29 These things shall be perpetual, and for an
ordinance in all your dwellings.
30 The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none
shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.
31You shall not take money of him that is guilty of
blood, but he shall die forthwith.
32 The banished and fugitives before the death of the
high priest may by no means return into their own cities.
33 Defile not the land of your habitation, which is
stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated,
but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.
34 And thus shall your possession he cleansed, myself
abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.
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