Numbers 35:26

Bishop's Bible

But if the slayer come without the borders of his citie of refuge, whyther he was fled:

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

King James Version
But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;

Lexham English Bible
But if the killer surely goes out of the territory of the city of his refuge to which he fled,

English Standard Version
But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled,

New Century Version
"‘Such a person must never go outside the limits of the city of safety.

New English Translation
But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

Amplified Bible
'But if at any time the one guilty of manslaughter comes outside the border of his city of refuge to which he fled,

New American Standard Bible
'But if at any time he goes beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he flees,

Geneva Bible (1587)
But if the slayer come without the borders of the citie of his refuge, whither he was fled,

Legacy Standard Bible
But if the manslayer at any time goes beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he may flee,

Contemporary English Version
But if you ever leave the Safe Town

Complete Jewish Bible
But if the killer ever goes beyond the limits of the city of refuge he fled to,

Darby Translation
But if the manslayer shall in any way come outside the limits of the city of his refuge whither he hath fled,

Easy-to-Read Version
"You must never go outside the limits of your city of safety. If you do and if a member of the dead person's family catches you and kills you, that family member will not be guilty of murder.

George Lamsa Translation
But if the slayer shall at any time go outside the bounds of the city of his refuge, to which he has fled;

Good News Translation
If you leave the city of refuge to which you have escaped

Christian Standard Bible®
“If the one who kills someone ever goes outside the border of the city of refuge he fled to,

Literal Translation
But if the manslayer at all goes out from the border of the city of his refuge, there to which he has fled,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf the deedsleyer go out of the borders of his fre cite, that he was fled vnto,

American Standard Version
But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth,

Bible in Basic English
But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth;

King James Version (1611)
But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the citie of his refuge, whither he was fled:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
But if the slayer should in any wise go out beyond the bounds of the city whither he fled for refuge,

English Revised Version
But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth;

Berean Standard Bible
But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If the sleere is foundun with out the coostis `of the citees that ben asigned to exilid men,

Young's Literal Translation
`And if the man-slayer at all go out [from] the border of the city of his refuge whither he fleeth,

Update Bible Version
But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

Webster's Bible Translation
But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he had fled;

World English Bible
But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

New King James Version
But if the manslayer at any time goes outside the limits of the city of refuge where he fled,

New Living Translation
"But if the slayer ever leaves the limits of the city of refuge,

New Life Bible
But if the man who killed another person at sometime goes outside his city where he went to be safe,

New Revised Standard
But if the slayer shall at any time go outside the bounds of the original city of refuge,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But if the man-slayer, go out, of the bounds of his city of refuge, whereinto he hath fled;

Douay-Rheims Bible
If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished,

Revised Standard Version
But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the bounds of his city of refuge to which he fled,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'But if the manslayer at any time goes beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he may flee,

Contextual Overview

⁹ And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: ¹⁰ Speake vnto the chyldren of Israel, and say vnto them: When ye be come ouer Iordane into the lande of Chanaan: ¹¹ Ye shall appoint you cities, to be cities of refuge for you: that he whiche sleeth a person vnwares, may flee thyther. ¹² And these cities shalbe vnto you a refuge from the auenger of blood: that he which killeth, dye not, vntill he stand before the congregation in iudgement. ¹³ And of these cities which ye shal geue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge. ¹⁴ Ye shal geue three on this side Iordane, and three in the land of Chanaan, whiche shalbe cities of refuge. ¹⁵ And these sixe cities shalbe a refuge, both for the chyldren of Israel, and for the straunger, & for hym that dwelleth among you: that all they whiche kyll any person vnwares, may flee thyther. ¹⁶ And if any man smyte another with an instrument of iron that he dye, then is he a murtherer, and the murtherer shall dye for it. ¹⁷ If he smyte hym with throwyng a stone, that a man may dye with, and if he dye, he that smote hym is a murtherer: let the same murtherer be slayne therefore. ¹⁸ Or if he smyte hym with a handweapon of wood that a man may dye with, then if he dye, he is a murtherer: let the same murtherer be slaine therfore.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

After the manslayer had been received into the city of refuge, the avenger of blood could only act as prosecutor; and the magistrates, in the presence of the people, were appointed to decide the cause according to the rules here laid down. Probably the accused person was tried at or near the place where the deceased had been slain, and where evidence could most easily be brought, and in case he was acquitted by the decision of the judges, and with the approbation of the people, he was conveyed back to the city of refuge, where he was protected as a kind of prisoner at large, till the death of the high priest; when the public loss, and the grief occasioned by it, might be supposed to swallow up all personal regrets and resentments, and then he was permitted to return to his house and estate. But if, in the mean while, he ventured to leave the city, and the avenger met him and slew him, he was supposed to merit his doom by thus neglecting the appointment of God for his preservation, and the avenger must not be punished. This shews that in other cases, if the avenger slew an innocent man on surmise, he was liable to the punishment of a murderer; but if, by the testimony of two credible witnesses, the man who had fled to the city of refuge was adjudged guilty, he must without fail be put to death.

Reciprocal: Joshua 2:19 - whosoever

Cross-References

Genesis 25:20
And Isahac was fourtie yere olde when he toke Rebecca to wyfe, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, and sister to Laban the Syrian.

Genesis 28:2
Arise, and get thee to Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and there take thee a wyfe of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.

Genesis 31:18
And caryed away all his flockes, and all his substaunce whiche he had procured, the increase of his cattell which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isahac his father vnto the lande of Chanaan.

Genesis 35:9
And God appeared vnto Iacob agayne, after he came out of Mesopotamia, and blessed him.

Genesis 35:13
And so God departed from him, in the place where he had talked with him.

Genesis 35:16
And they departed from Bethel: and when he was but a fielde breadth from Ephrath, Rachel began to trauell, and in trauayling, she was in perill:

Genesis 35:18
Then as her soule was a departing (for she died) she called his name Benoni, but his father called hym Beniamin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge,.... Which seems to be the three thousand cubits assigned to every city of the Levites, and so to the cities of refuge; and which, according to the Jewish writers, were a refuge, as the city itself; and it is said x,

"he, that kills a man there, is killed for him, but though the border is a refuge, the slayer does not dwell in it, as it is said. Numbers 35:25, "he shall abide in it", but not in its borders:''

whither he was fled; on account of manslaughter.

x Maimon. Hilchot Rotzeach, c. 8. sect. 11. Misn. Maccot, c. 2. sect. 7.