Lexham English Bible

Numbers 35:13-16 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. The cities that you are to give will be your six cities of refuge.

14. You will give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they will be cities of refuge.

15. To the Israelites, to the alien, and to the temporary resident in their midst there will be these six cities as a refuge to which anyone who unintentionally kills a person may flee.

16. “ ‘But if he hit him with an object of iron, so that he dies, the killer must surely be put to death.