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  • Amplified Bible

    Moses Escapes to Midian

    When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he tried to kill Moses. Then Moses fled from Pharaoh’s presence and took refuge in the land of Midian, where he sat down by a well.
  • Amplified Bible

    Cities of Refuge

    [Among] the cities which you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall provide for the one who commits manslaughter to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities [to the Levites].
  • New International Version

    Cities of Refuge

    “Six of the towns you give the Levites will be cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone may flee. In addition, give them forty-two other towns.
  • Amplified Bible
    The cities shall be to you as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who has caused the death of another will not be killed until he has had a [fair] trial before the congregation.
  • New International Version
    They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly.
  • Amplified Bible
    These six cities shall be a refuge for the Israelites and for the stranger and the resident alien among them; so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may escape there.
  • New International Version
    These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners residing among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.
  • Amplified Bible
    The congregation shall rescue the offender from the hand of the blood avenger and return him to his city of refuge, [the place] to which he had escaped; and he shall live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the sacred oil.
  • New International Version
    The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
  • Amplified Bible
    because the offender should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the high priest’s death the offender shall return to the land of his possession.
  • New International Version
    The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.
  • Amplified Bible
    You shall not accept a ransom for him who has escaped to his city of refuge, so that he may return to live in his [own] land before the death of the high priest.
  • New International Version
    “‘Do not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a city of refuge and so allow them to go back and live on their own land before the death of the high priest.
  • Amplified Bible

    Cities of Refuge

    “When the Lord your God cuts off (destroys) the nations whose land He is giving you, and you dispossess them and live in their cities and in their houses,
  • New International Version

    Cities of Refuge

    When the Lord your God has destroyed the nations whose land he is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their towns and houses,
  • New International Version
    Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities.
  • Amplified Bible
    if you keep and carefully observe all these commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk [that is, to live each and every day] always in His ways—then you shall add three more cities [of refuge] for yourself, besides these three,
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45 topical index results for “refuge”

ARARAT : Assassins of Sennacherib take refuge in (Isaiah 37:38)
ARMENIA : Assassins of Sennacherib take refuge in (Isaiah 37:38)
GESHUR : Absalom takes refuge in, after the murder of Amnon (1 Samuel 1:3)
HAMMOTH-DOR : A city of refuge of the tribe of Naphtali (Joshua 21:32)
HARETH : A forest in which David found refuge from Saul (1 Samuel 22:5)
JAZER : A city of refuge east of the Jordan River (Joshua 21:39)
PAUL : The ship is wrecked, and all on board take refuge on the island of Melita (Malta) (Acts 27:14-44)
READINGS, SELECT : GOD, OUR REFUGE (Psalms 46)