Bible verse

Numbers 35:26

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

Numbers 35:26 · BSB

Numbers 35:26 in context

The verses around it, from Numbers 35.

22 But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,

23 or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,

24 then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

25 The assembly is to protect the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge to which he fled, and he must live there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

26 But if the manslayer ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which he fled

27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed

28 because the manslayer must remain in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may he return to the land he owns.

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

30 If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

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Numbers 35:26 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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