Quotes about Community
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
— Numbers 32:24
Kemuel son of Shiphtan, a leader from the tribe of Ephraim;
— Numbers 34:24
designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
— Numbers 35:11
Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
— Numbers 35:14
These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
— Numbers 35:15
At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.
— Deuteronomy 1:9
But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
— Deuteronomy 1:12
At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
— Deuteronomy 1:16
But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,
— Deuteronomy 3:19
to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:
— Deuteronomy 4:42
He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
— Deuteronomy 5:3
And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.
— Deuteronomy 12:12