Quotes about Justice
Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
- Numbers 35:6
Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 35:9
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
- Numbers 35:11
You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
- Numbers 35:12
Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
- Numbers 35:14
If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:16
Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:17
If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:18
The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
- Numbers 35:19
Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,
- Numbers 35:20
or if in hostility he strikes him with his hand and he dies, the one who struck him must surely be put to death; he is a murderer. When the avenger of blood finds the murderer, he is to kill him.
- Numbers 35:21
or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,
- Numbers 35:23