Numbers 35:29

THE MESSAGE

"These are the procedures for making judgments from now on, wherever you live.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

King James Version
So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Lexham English Bible
These things will be as a decree of justice for you for your generations in all your dwellings.

English Standard Version
And these things shall be for a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

New Century Version
"‘These laws are for you from now on, wherever you live.

New English Translation
So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.

Amplified Bible
'These things shall be a statute for you throughout your generations wherever you may be.

New American Standard Bible
'These things shall be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So these thinges shall be a lawe of iudgement vnto you, throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘And these things shall be for a statutory judgment to you throughout your generations in all your places of habitation.

Contemporary English Version
The community of Israel must always obey these laws.

Complete Jewish Bible
These things shall constitute your standard for judgment through all your generations, wherever you live.

Darby Translation
And this shall be unto you a statute of right throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Easy-to-Read Version
These rules will be the law forever in all the towns of your people.

George Lamsa Translation
So these things shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all of your dwellings.

Good News Translation
These rules apply to you and your descendants wherever you may live.

Christian Standard Bible®
These instructions will be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations wherever you live.

Literal Translation
And these things shall be to you for a statute of judgment for your generations, in all your dwellings.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
This shalbe a statute of the lawe vnto you amoge youre posterities in all youre dwellinges.

American Standard Version
And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Bible in Basic English
These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So these thynges shalbe a lawe of iudgement vnto you, throughout your generations, in al your dwellinges.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

King James Version (1611)
So these things shall be for a statute of iudgment vnto you, thorowout your generations in al your dwellings.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And these things shall be to you for an ordinance of judgment throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

English Revised Version
And these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Berean Standard Bible
This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
These schulen be euerlastynge and lawful thingis in alle youre dwellyngis.

Young's Literal Translation
`And these things have been to you for a statute of judgment to your generations, in all your dwellings:

Update Bible Version
And these things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Webster's Bible Translation
So these [things] shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

World English Bible
These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

New King James Version
"And these things shall be a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

New Living Translation
These are legal requirements for you to observe from generation to generation, wherever you may live.

New Life Bible
‘These things will be a Law to you and to all your children-to-come in all your homes.

New Revised Standard
These things shall be a statute and ordinance for you throughout your generations wherever you live.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall these serve you as a regulative statute unto your generations, - wheresoever ye may dwell.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your dwellings.

Revised Standard Version
"And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'These things shall be for a statutory ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Contextual Overview

⁹ God spoke to Moses: "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them, When you cross the River Jordan into the country of Canaan, designate your asylum-cities, towns to which a person who accidentally kills someone can flee for asylum. They will be places of refuge from the avenger so that the alleged murderer won't be killed until he can appear before the community in court. Provide six asylum-cities. Designate three of the towns to the east side of the Jordan, the other three in Canaan proper—asylum-cities for the People of Israel, for the foreigner, and for any occasional visitors or guests—six asylum-cities to run to for anyone who accidentally kills another. ¹⁶ "But if the killer has used an iron object, that's just plain murder; he's obviously a murderer and must be put to death. ¹⁷ "Or if he has a rock in his hand big enough to kill and the man dies, that's murder; he's a murderer and must be put to death. ¹⁸ "Or if he's carrying a wooden club heavy enough to kill and the man dies, that's murder; he's a murderer and must be put to death. ¹⁹ "In such cases the avenger has a right to kill the murderer when he meets him—he can kill him on the spot. ²⁰"And if out of sheer hatred a man pushes another or from ambush throws something at him and he dies, or angrily hits him with his fist and kills him, that's murder—he must be put to death. The avenger has a right to kill him when he gets him. ²²"If, however, he impulsively pushes someone and there is no history of hard feelings, or he impetuously picks up something and throws it, or he accidentally drops a stone tool—a maul or hammer, say—and it hits and kills someone he didn't even know was there, and there's no suspicion that there was bad blood between them, the community is to judge between the killer and the avenger following these guidelines. It's the task of the community to save the killer from the hand of the avenger—the community is to return him to his asylum-city to which he fled. He must stay there until the death of the High Priest who was anointed with the holy oil. But if the murderer leaves the asylum-city to which he has fled, and the avenger finds him outside the borders of his asylum-city, the avenger has a right to kill the murderer. And he's not considered guilty of murder. ²⁸ "So it's important that he stay in his asylum-city until the death of the High Priest. After the death of the High Priest he is free to return to his own place. ²⁹ "These are the procedures for making judgments from now on, wherever you live. ³⁰ "Anyone who kills another may be executed only on the testimony of eyewitnesses. But no one can be executed on the testimony of only one witness.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 27:1, Numbers 27:11

Cross-References

Genesis 25:17
Ishmael lived 137 years. When he breathed his last and died he was buried with his family. His children settled down all the way from Havilah near Egypt eastward to Shur in the direction of Assyria. The Ishmaelites didn't get along with any of their kin.

Genesis 27:41
Esau seethed in anger against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him; he brooded, "The time for mourning my father's death is close. And then I'll kill my brother Jacob."

Genesis 35:1
God spoke to Jacob: "Go back to Bethel. Stay there and build an altar to the God who revealed himself to you when you were running for your life from your brother Esau."

Genesis 35:2
Jacob told his family and all those who lived with him, "Throw out all the alien gods which you have, take a good bath and put on clean clothes, we're going to Bethel. I'm going to build an altar there to the God who answered me when I was in trouble and has stuck with me everywhere I've gone since."

Genesis 35:9
God revealed himself once again to Jacob, after he had come back from Paddan Aram and blessed him: "Your name is Jacob (Heel); but that's your name no longer. From now on your name is Israel (God-Wrestler)."

Genesis 35:19
Rachel died and was buried on the road to Ephrath, that is, Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar to mark her grave. It is still there today, "Rachel's Grave Stone."

Genesis 49:33
Jacob finished instructing his sons, pulled his feet into bed, breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you,.... A judicial law, according to which they were to proceed in all the above cases:

throughout your generations in all your dwellings; throughout all ages, as long as they dwelt in the land of Canaan, even unto the times of the Messiah, in whom the things figured hereby had their accomplishment: the cities of refuge were types of Christ: hence a divine person, even the Messiah, is often spoken of as the refuge of his people, Psalms 9:9 with which compare Hebrews 6:18 these were places to flee to, as the word is rendered by the Greek version; to Christ sensible sinners flee for shelter and safety, which supposes danger in themselves from the law and justice of God; a sense of that danger which makes them flee from wrath to come; a view of Christ, as a place of refuge, and that no other but he will serve their purpose, and therefore make all the haste and speed they can unto him. The word properly signifies cities of gathering, or of reception. There was a gathering of the elect of God to Christ at his death; and there is another at effectual calling, which is an act of God's grace, and a distinguishing one, when souls gather to Christ as their Saviour for righteousness, peace, pardon, rest, and everlasting life; and when Christ receives them, though sinners, into his arms, and into his heart, and into open fellowship with him, so as to dwell in him, where they dwell pleasantly and safely; he receives them into his house here, and into heaven hereafter; and by, and in Christ, those that flee to him, and are received by him, are retained and preserved from Satan, law, hell and death. The cities of refuge were of God's appointing; so Christ, as a Saviour, and rock of refuge to his people, is appointed and foreordained of God; they were well known for refuges, as the Lord is in the places of Zion; they were open for all, at all times, as Christ is for all sinners, even the chief of sinners, Jews or Gentiles; they are all one in Christ, the Israelite, and the stranger and sojourner; all impediments were removed out of the way of them, and plain directions to them given, as are in the Gospel, and by the ministers of it; and there is always room in Christ for such that flee to him, as there was in those cities; and being in him, they are safe from the curse and condemnation of the law, from wrath to come, and from the second death; and their redemption and atonement, peace and reconciliation, liberty, life and salvation, are owing to the death of Christ, their high priest. Abendana a observes, that the death of the high priest atoned for the offence (of manslaughter), which was the reason the manslayer continued in the city of refuge till his death, and then was released: however, certain it is, that the death of Christ, our high priest, atones for every sin of those that flee to him, and by which they are reconciled to God. In some things there is a difference between these cities of refuge and Christ; they were six, he but one; they were for such only who shed blood ignorantly, he for such that were enemies to him, and lived in malice towards others, and guilty of the most enormous crimes: to be in these cities of refuge was a kind of exile and imprisonment, but they that are in Christ are freemen; it was possible that such might die that were in them, and at most were only delivered from temporal death, but they that flee to Christ for refuge are saved with an everlasting salvation.

a Not. in Miclol Yophi in ver. 25.