Numbers 35:13

Contemporary English Version

There are to be six of these Safe Towns,

Parallel Translations

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

King James Version
And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.

Lexham English Bible
The cities that you are to give will be your six cities of refuge.

English Standard Version
And the cities that you give shall be your six cities of refuge.

New Century Version
The six cities you give will be cities of safety.

New English Translation
These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.

Amplified Bible
'The cities which you are to provide shall be your six cities of refuge.

New American Standard Bible
'So the cities which you are to provide shall be six cities of refuge for you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And of the cities which ye shall giue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.

Complete Jewish Bible
In regard to the cities you are to give, there are to be six cities of refuge for you.

Darby Translation
And the cities that ye shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you.

Easy-to-Read Version
There will be six cities of safety.

George Lamsa Translation
And of these cities which you shall give, six cities shall you have for refuge.

Good News Translation
Choose six cities,

Christian Standard Bible®
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.

Literal Translation
As to the cities which you shall give six shall be cities of refuge for you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And of these cities which ye shall geue, there shalbe sixe fre cities.

American Standard Version
And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

Bible in Basic English
Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And of these cities which ye shal geue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And as to the cities which ye shall give, there shall be for you six cities of refuge.

King James Version (1611)
And of these cities which ye shall giue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the cities which ye shall assign, even the six cities, shall be places of refuge for you.

English Revised Version
And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

Berean Standard Bible
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe of tho citees that ben departid to the helpis of fugityues,

Young's Literal Translation
`As to the cities which ye give -- six [are] cities of refuge to you;

Update Bible Version
And the cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

Webster's Bible Translation
And of these cities which ye shall give, six cities shall ye have for refuge.

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

New King James Version
And of the cities which you give, you shall have six cities of refuge.

New Living Translation
Designate six cities of refuge for yourselves,

New Life Bible
The cities you give will be your six cities where you can go to be safe.

New Revised Standard
The cities that you designate shall be six cities of refuge for you:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And as touching the cities which ye shall give six cities of refuge, shall there be unto you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,

Revised Standard Version
And the cities which you give shall be your six cities of refuge.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The cities which you are to give shall be your six cities of refuge.

Contextual Overview

⁹ The Lord then told Moses ¹⁰ to tell the people of Israel: After you have crossed the Jordan River and are settled in Canaan, ¹¹ choose Safe Towns, where a person who has accidentally killed someone can run for protection. ¹² If the victim's relatives think it was murder, they might try to take revenge. Anyone accused of murder can run to one of these Safe Towns for protection and not be killed before a trial is held. ¹³ There are to be six of these Safe Towns, ¹⁴ three on each side of the Jordan River. ¹⁵ They will be places of protection for anyone who lives in Israel and accidentally kills someone. ¹⁶The Lord said: Suppose you hit someone with a piece of iron or a large stone or a dangerous wooden tool. If that person dies, then you are a murderer and must be put to death ¹⁹ by one of the victim's relatives. He will take revenge for his relative's death as soon as he finds you. ²⁰Or suppose you get angry and kill someone by pushing or hitting or by throwing something. You are a murderer and must be put to death by one of the victim's relatives.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

six cities: Numbers 35:6

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:57 - the city of refuge

Cross-References

Genesis 11:5
But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,

Genesis 17:22
God finished speaking to Abraham and then left.

Genesis 18:33
After speaking with Abraham, the Lord left, and Abraham went back home.

Judges 6:21
The angel was holding a walking stick, and he touched the meat and the bread with the end of the stick. Flames jumped from the rock and burned up the meat and the bread. When Gideon looked, the angel was gone.

Judges 13:20
The fire blazed up toward the sky, and the Lord 's angel went up toward heaven in the fire. Manoah and his wife bowed down low when they saw what happened.

Luke 24:31
At once they knew who he was, but he disappeared.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And of these cities which ye shall give,.... Of the forty eight cities they were to give to the Levites, Numbers 35:7,

six cities shall ye have for refuge; which, I think, makes it clear, that not all the forty eight cities were for refuge, only six of them.