Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
then shall ye find for you, convenient cities, cities of refuge, shall they be unto you, - and the manslayer, who hath slain a person, by mistake, shall flee thither.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
Holman Bible
designate cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
International Standard Version
they are to designate some towns of refuge so that anyone who kills someone inadvertently may flee there.
A Conservative Version
then ye shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
American Standard Version
then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
Amplified
then you shall select for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge, so that the one who kills any person unintentionally may escape there.
Bible in Basic English
Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.
Darby Translation
then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.
Julia Smith Translation
And build ye to you cities; cities of refuge shall they be to you; and the slayer to flee there smiting a soul in error.
King James 2000
Then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee there, who kills any person unintentionally.
Lexham Expanded Bible
you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.
Modern King James verseion
then you shall choose cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the slayer who kills any person through error may flee there.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
ye shall build cities which shall be privileged towns for you: that he which slayeth a man unawares, may fly thither.
NET Bible
you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.
New Heart English Bible
then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
Webster
Then ye shall appoint for you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, who killeth any person at unawares.
World English Bible
then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
Youngs Literal Translation
and have prepared to yourselves cities -- cities of refuge they are to you -- then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 35:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cities Of Refuge
10 Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, - When ye are passing over the Jordan unto the land of Canaan, 11 then shall ye find for you, convenient cities, cities of refuge, shall they be unto you, - and the manslayer, who hath slain a person, by mistake, shall flee thither. 12 So shall the cities serve you for places of refuge from the redeemer, - that the manslayer may not die, until he has stood before the assembly, for judgment,
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 21:13
But he who hath not lain in wait, but, God, hath occasioned him to come to his hand, then will I appoint for thee a place, whither he may flee.
Joshua 20:2
Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, - Set out for you the cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you, by the hand of Moses:
Numbers 35:6
And, among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give that the manslayer may flee thither, - and besides them, ye shall give, forty-two cities,
Numbers 35:22-25
But if suddenly, without enmity, he shall thrust him, or hurl upon him any missile, without design;
Deuteronomy 4:42
that the manslayer might flee thither who should slay his neighbour unawares, he, not having hated him, aforetime, - and might flee unto one of these cities, and live:
Deuteronomy 19:1-13
When Yahweh thy God, shall cut off the nations whose land Yahweh thy God is giving thee, - and thou shalt dispossess them, and dwell in their cities and in their houses,