The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, Num 22:1Num 26:63Num 31:12Num 33:50Num 36:13 “Command the children of Israel to give to the Levites cities to dwell in out of their inheritance. You shall give pasture lands for the cities around them to the Levites. Jos 14:3-4Ezk 48:81Co 9:10-14Ezk 45:1-8Ezk 48:22Jos 21:2-42Lev 25:32-34 They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals. 2Ch 11:14Ezk 45:2Jos 21:11
“The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits 1 around it. You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their cities.
“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities. Jos 21:13Jos 21:3Jos 21:21Jos 21:27Jos 21:32Jos 21:36Jos 21:38Psa 9:9 All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands. 1Ch 6:54-81Jos 21:3-42 Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.” Num 26:54Num 33:54Exo 16:18Jos 21:1-422Co 8:13-14Deu 33:8-11Exo 32:28-29Gen 49:7 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, Deu 12:9Deu 19:1-2Jos 20:2-6Lev 14:34Lev 25:2Num 34:2 then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. Exo 21:13Jos 20:2Num 35:6Deu 19:1-13Deu 4:42Num 35:22-25 The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment. Deu 19:6Jos 20:3-62Sa 14:7Jos 20:9Deu 19:11-12Num 35:19Num 35:24-27 The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge. You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge. Deu 19:8-10Deu 4:41-43Jos 20:7-9 These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreigner living among them, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. Num 15:16Exo 12:49Gal 3:28Lev 24:22Rom 3:29
“‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. Lev 24:17Deu 19:11-13Exo 21:12-14Gen 9:5-6Num 35:22-24Num 35:30-33 If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. Exo 21:18 Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death. Deu 19:12Deu 19:6Jos 20:3Jos 20:5Num 35:21Num 35:12Num 35:24Num 35:27 If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died, Exo 21:14Deu 19:112Sa 20:102Sa 3:27Gen 4:81Ki 2:31-331Ki 2:5-61Sa 18:10-11 or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
“‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait, Exo 21:13Num 35:11Deu 19:5Jos 20:3Jos 20:5 or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm, then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances. Jos 20:6Num 35:12 The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil. Exo 29:7Heb 10:19-22Heb 7:25-28Jos 20:6Lev 21:10Lev 4:3Rom 3:24-26Eph 2:16-18
“‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees, and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood, Deu 19:10Deu 19:6Exo 22:2 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession. Act 11:23Act 27:31Heb 10:26-30Heb 10:39Heb 3:14Heb 6:4-8Heb 9:11-12Heb 9:15-17
“‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Num 27:11Num 27:1
“‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain based on the testimony of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify alone against any person so that he dies. Heb 10:28Deu 19:15Mat 18:162Co 13:11Ti 5:19Jhn 8:17-18Deu 17:6-7Jhn 7:51
“‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death. 1Ki 2:28-342Sa 12:13Deu 19:11-13Exo 21:14Gen 9:5-6Psa 51:14
“‘You shall take no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land before the death of the priest. Act 4:12Gal 2:21Gal 3:10-13Gal 3:22Rev 5:9
“‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. Luk 11:50-51Psa 106:38Gen 9:6Isa 26:21Ezk 22:24-27Hos 4:2-3Lev 18:25Mat 23:31-35 You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, the LORD, dwell among the children of Israel.’” Num 5:3Psa 135:21Rev 21:272Co 6:16-171Ki 6:13Exo 25:8Exo 29:45-46Hos 9:3