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Numbers 35:6
New English Translation
Numbers 35:6
New English Translation
6 Now 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.[a] And you must give them forty-two other towns.
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- Numbers 35:6 tn The “manslayer” is the verb “to kill” in a participial form, providing the subject of the clause. The verb means “to kill”; it can mean accidental killing, premeditated killing, or capital punishment. The clause uses the infinitive to express purpose or result: “to flee there the manslayer,” means “so that the manslayer may flee there.”
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