Numbers 35:6

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Summary

And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.

Six cities for refuge

General references

Deuteronomy 4:41

Bible References

Six cities for refuge

The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

General references

Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;