民数记 35:28

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

因為那誤殺人的應該住在避難城中，直到大祭司死了；大祭司死了以後，那誤殺人的才可以回到他自己地業去。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 为 误 杀 人 的 该 住 在 逃 城 里 ， 等 到 大 祭 司 死 了 。 大 祭 司 死 了 以 後 ， 误 杀 人 的 才 可 以 回 到 他 所 得 为 业 之 地 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ Then the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁰ "Tell the Israelites these things: ‘When you cross the Jordan River and go into Canaan, ¹¹ you must choose cities to be cities of safety, so that a person who accidentally kills someone may run to them for safety. ¹² There the person will be safe from the dead person's relative who has the duty of punishing the killer. He will not die before he receives a fair trial in court. ¹³ The six cities you give will be cities of safety. ¹⁴ Give three cities east of the Jordan River and three cities in Canaan as cities of safety. ¹⁵ These six cities will be places of safety for citizens of Israel, as well as for foreigners and other people living with you. Any of these people who accidentally kills someone may run to one of these cities. ¹⁶ "‘Anyone who uses an iron weapon to kill someone is a murderer. He must be put to death. ¹⁷ Anyone who takes a rock and kills a person with it is a murderer. He must be put to death. ¹⁸ Anyone who picks up a piece of wood and kills someone with it is a murderer. He must be put to death.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he should: John 15:4-6, Acts 11:23, Acts 27:31, Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 6:4-8, Hebrews 10:26-30, Hebrews 10:39

after the death: Hebrews 9:11, Hebrews 9:12, Hebrews 9:15-17

Reciprocal: Numbers 35:25 - abide in it 2 Samuel 14:14 - he devise

Cross-References

Genesis 25:7
Abraham lived to be one hundred seventy-five years old.

Genesis 47:28
Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, so he lived to be one hundred forty-seven years old.

Genesis 50:26
Joseph died when he was one hundred ten years old. Doctors prepared his body for burial, and then they put him in a coffin in Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest,.... Nothing could give him his liberty but his death; so that though this was a merciful provision made in such cases for such persons, and was a considerable benefit and privilege, yet it carried in it some appearance of a punishment; since such a person was confined within the boundaries of one of the cities of refuge as long as the high priest lived; and this was done to make persons cautious how they were any way accessory to the death of another, though without design:

but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession; to that part of the land, and to that tribe to which he belonged, to his house and family, and to his possessions and inheritances, whatever he had, and to all the honours and privileges he before enjoyed, and under no danger from the avenger of blood henceforward: a custom somewhat like this has prevailed in some parts of Africa, as Leo Africanus y relates, that if a man happened to kill another, all the friends of the deceased conspired to kill him, but if they could not effect it, then the guilty person was proclaimed an exile from the city, for the whole space of seven years; and at the expiration of the whole seven years, when he returned from his exile, the chief men of the city invited him to a feast, and so he was restored to his liberty: temples, groves, altars, and statues, were common among other nations for asylums or refuges, but whole cities very rarely with the ancients; it seems there were some z.

y Descriptio Africae, l. 2. p. 135, 136. z Vid. Marmor. Oxon. & Not. in ib. p. 25. & Rittershusium de Jure Asylorum, c. 2.