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  • 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.
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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)