World English Bible
Numbers 35:11
“then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.”
Verse in context — Numbers 35
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Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
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then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
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The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
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The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
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