Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.
Holman Bible
designate cities to serve as cities of refuge for you, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
International Standard Version
they are to designate some towns of refuge so that anyone who kills someone inadvertently may flee there.
A Conservative Version
then ye shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
Amplified
then you shall select for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge, so that the one who kills any person unintentionally may escape there.
Bible in Basic English
Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.
Darby Translation
then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.
Julia Smith Translation
And build ye to you cities; cities of refuge shall they be to you; and the slayer to flee there smiting a soul in error.
King James 2000
Then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee there, who kills any person unintentionally.
Lexham Expanded Bible
you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.
Modern King James verseion
then you shall choose cities to be cities of refuge for you, so that the slayer who kills any person through error may flee there.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
ye shall build cities which shall be privileged towns for you: that he which slayeth a man unawares, may fly thither.
NET Bible
you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.
New Heart English Bible
then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
The Emphasized Bible
then shall ye find for you, convenient cities, cities of refuge, shall they be unto you, - and the manslayer, who hath slain a person, by mistake, shall flee thither.
Webster
Then ye shall appoint for you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, who killeth any person at unawares.
World English Bible
then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
Youngs Literal Translation
and have prepared to yourselves cities -- cities of refuge they are to you -- then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 35:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cities Of Refuge
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 11 then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither. 12 And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 21:13
And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.
Joshua 20:2
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by Moses,
Numbers 35:6
And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and two cities.
Numbers 35:22-25
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,
Deuteronomy 4:42
that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
Deuteronomy 19:1-13
When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;