Numbers 35:13

Complete Jewish Bible

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

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.

Contemporary English Version
There are to be six of these Safe Towns,

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 (RY: vii, LY: vi) Adonai said to Moshe, ¹⁰ "Tell the people of Isra'el, ‘When you cross the Yarden into the land of Kena‘an, ¹¹ you are to designate for yourselves cities that will be cities of refuge for you, to which anyone who kills someone by mistake can flee. ¹² These cities are to be a refuge for you from the dead person's next-of-kin, who might otherwise avenge his kinsman's death by slaying the killer prior to his standing trial before the community. ¹³ In regard to the cities you are to give, there are to be six cities of refuge for you. ¹⁴ You are to give three cities east of the Yarden and three cities in the land of Kena‘an; they will be cities of refuge. ¹⁵ These six cities will serve as refuge for the people of Isra'el, as well as for the foreigner and resident alien with them; so that anyone who kills someone by mistake may flee there. ¹⁶ "‘However, if he hits him with an iron implement and thus causes his death, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death. ¹⁷ Or if he hits him with a stone in his hand big enough to kill someone, and he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death. ¹⁸ Or if he hits him with a wood utensil in his hand capable of killing someone, and he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.

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
Adonai came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

Genesis 17:22
With that, God finished speaking with Avraham and went up from him.

Genesis 18:33
Adonai went on his way as soon as he had finished speaking to Avraham, and Avraham returned to his place.

Judges 6:21
Then the angel of Adonai reached out with the stick he was holding, touched the meat and matzot, and fire shot up out of the rock and burned up the meat and matzot. Then the angel of Adonai disappeared before his eyes.

Judges 13:20
as the flame went up toward the sky from the altar, the angel of Adonai went up in the flame from the altar. When Manoach and his wife saw it, they fell to the ground on their faces.

Luke 24:31
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. But he became invisible to them.

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.