Numbers 35 from Scroll 4Q23 Leviticus-Numbersa
4 The pasture lands of
the cities, which you shall give to the Levites,
shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits around it. 5 You shall measure outside of the city for the
east side two thousand cubits, and for
the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits,
and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This
shall be the pasture lands of their cities.
Numbers
35 from Scroll 4Q27 Numbersb
3 They shall have the cities to dwell in. Their pasture lands shall be for their
livestock, and for their possessions, and for all their animals.
4 The pasture lands of the cities, which you
shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward
one thousand cubits around it. 5 You shall
measure outside of the city for the east side two
thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the
west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the
middle. This shall be the pasture lands of their
cities.
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11 then you shall
appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man
slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. 12 The
cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die
until he stands before
the congregation for judgment.
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14 You shall give
three cities beyond the Jordan, and
you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of
refuge. 15 For
the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner
living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who
kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
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18 Or
if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and
he died, the one who struck him shall surely be put to death, he is a murderer.
The murderer shall surely be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood shall
himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death. 20 If he shoved
him out of hatred, or hurled
something at him while lying in wait, so
that he died, while lying in wait, 21 or
in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck
him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death. The avenger of blood, he
shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
22 But
if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him
anything without lying in wait, 23 or
with any stone, by which a man may die, not
seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died,
and he was not his enemy and not
seeking his harm, 24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the
avenger of blood according to these
ordinances. 25 The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of
the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his
city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of
the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
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27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the
border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he
shall not be guilty of blood, 28 because he should have remained in his
city of refuge until the death of the
high priest. But after the death of
the high priest, the man slayer shall
return into the land of his possession.
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33 So
you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No
atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by
the blood of him who shed it. 34 You shall not defile the
land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, Yahweh,
dwell among the children of
Israel.