Numbers 35:24
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
Numbers 35:24 in other translations
| BSB | then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances. |
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| WEB | then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances. |
| ASV | then the congregation shall judge between the smiter 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. |
| DARBY | then the assembly shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these judgments; |
| BBE | Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules: |
| Webster | Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments: |
What does Numbers 35:24 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 35:22-28
22-28. But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait, &c.--Under the excitement of a sudden provocation, or violent passion, an injury might be inflicted issuing in death; and for a person who had thus undesignedly committed slaughter, the Levitical cities offered the benefit of full protection. Once having reached the nearest, for one or other of them was…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 35:9-34
To show plainly the abhorrence of murder, and to provide the more effectually for the punishment of the murderer, the nearest relation of the deceased, under the title of avenger of blood, (or the redeemer of blood,) in notorious cases, might pursue, and execute vengeance. A distinction is made, not between sudden anger and malice aforethought, both which are the crime of murder; but between intentionally striking a…
Numbers 35:24 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 35:24
- 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.
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Context
- Numbers 35:23
Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
- Numbers 35:24
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
- Numbers 35:25
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
Numbers 35:24 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces la congregación juzgará entre el heridor y el pariente del muerto conforme á estas leyes: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | alors l’assemblée jugera entre celui qui a frappé et le vengeur du sang, selon ces ordonnances; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so soll die Gemeinde zwischen dem Schläger und dem Bluträcher nach diesen Rechten richten; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et hoc audiente populo fuerit comprobatum, atque inter percussorem et propinquum sanguinis quæstio ventilata: |