Numbers 35:24 KJV — MannaFest

Numbers 35:24

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

KJV

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ASV

then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

WEB

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

YLT

then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments.

DBT

then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judgments;

About this book

Old Testament

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Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Joshua 20:6
And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
Numbers 35:12
And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
Exodus 21:1
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Numbers 35:19
The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
Deuteronomy 19:11
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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But he had to "abide in it." His confinement within its walls was a wise and salutary rule, designed to show the sanctity of human blood in God's sight, as well as to protect the manslayer himself, whose presence and intercourse in society might have provoked the passions of the deceased's relatives.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

, that the judges interposed only in a doubtful case, and that if the person on whom he took vengeance was indeed the murderer, and a wilful murderer, the avenger was innocent (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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