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Numbers 35:24

Numbers 35:24 is verse 24 of Numbers chapter 35, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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King James Version

Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:

World English Bible

then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

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Numbers 35:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible

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

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Numbers 35:12

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.

Joshua 20:6

He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled.”

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