Numbers Chapter 35 (Second to the last chapter) Continues on the Allocation of the Land Mainly to Emphasize that the Land Must Be Free from Contamination

Those Who Serve Hashem Have A Special Place Given To Them

What is more? Even those who committed murder (unintentionally) also has a place prepared for them as Hashem commanded.

*The one true G-d of Israel is merciful, compassionate and abundant in kindness…

“Cities for the Levites”
“Cities of Refuge for Unintentional Murder”
“Intentional Murder”
“Unintentional Murder”

Command the Children of Israel that they shall give to the Levites, from the heritage of their possession, cities for dwelling, and open space for the cities all around them shall you give to the Levites.
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The cities that you shall give to the Levites: the six cities of refuge that you shall provide for a murderer to flee there, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.
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The cities that you shall give from the possession of the Children of Israel, from the many you shall increase and from the few you shall decrease, each according to his inheritance that they shall inherit shall he give of his cities to the Levites.
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you shall designate cities for yourselves, cities of refuge shall they be for you, and a murderer shall flee there – one who takes a life unintentionally.
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For the Children of Israel and the proselyte and resident among them shall these six cities be a refuge, for anyone who kills a person unintentionally to flee there.
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If he had struck him with an iron implement and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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then the assembly shall judge between the assailant and the avenger of the blood, according to these laws.
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These shall be for you a decree of justice for your generations, in all your dwelling places.
:29
Whoever smites a person, according to the testimony of witnesses shall one kill the murderer, but a single witness shall not testify against a person regarding death.
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You shall not accept ransom for the life of a murderer who is worthy of death, for he shall surely be put to death.
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You shall not accept ransom for one who fled to his city of refuge to return to dwell in the land, before the death of the Kohen.
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You shall not bring guilt upon the land in which you are, for the blood will bring guilt upon the Land; the Land will not have atonement for the blood that was spilled in it, except through the blood of the one who spilled it.
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You shall not contaminate the Land in which you dwell, in whose midst I rest, for I am Hashem Who rests among the Children of Israel.
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1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan at Jericho saying:
2 Command the children of Israel that they shall give to the Levites from their hereditary possession cities in which to dwell, and you shall give the Levites open spaces around the cities.
3 These cities shall be theirs for dwelling, and their open spaces shall be for their cattle, their property, and for all their needs.
4 The areas of open space for the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall extend from the wall of the city outward, one thousand cubits all around.
5 You shall measure from outside the city, two thousand cubits on the eastern side, two thousand cubits on the southern side, two thousand cubits on the western side, and two thousand cubits on the northern side, with the city in the middle; this shall be your cities’ open spaces.
6 Among the cities you shall give to the Levites, shall be six cities of refuge, which you shall provide [as places] to which a murderer can flee. In addition to them, you shall provide forty two cities.
7 All the cities you shall give to the Levites shall number forty eight cities, them with their open spaces.
8 And as for the cities that you shall give from the possession of the children of Israel, you shall take more from a larger [holding] and you shall take less from a smaller one. Each one, according to the inheritance allotted to him, shall give of his cities to the Levites.
9 The Lord spoke to Moses saying:
10 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, When you cross the Jordan to the land of Canaan,
11 you shall designate cities for yourselves; they shall be cities of refuge for you, and a murderer who killed a person unintentionally shall flee there.
12 These cities shall serve you as a refuge from an avenger, so that the murderer shall not die until he stands in judgment before the congregation.
13 The cities that you provide shall serve as six cities of refuge for you.
14 You shall provide the three cities in trans Jordan and the three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
15 These six cities shall be a refuge for the children of Israel and for the proselyte and resident among them, so that anyone who unintentionally kills a person can flee there.
16 If he struck him with an iron instrument and he dies, he is a murderer, and the murderer shall be put to death.
17 If he struck him with a fist sized stone which is deadly, and he dies, he is a murderer, and the murderer shall be put to death.
18 Or with a fist sized wooden instrument which is deadly,and he dies, he is a murderer, and the murderer shall be put to death.
19 The blood avenger shall kill the murderer; he may kill him when he meets him.
20 If, out of hatred, he pushed him, or threw something at him with premeditation, and he died,
21 or if he maliciously struck him with his hand and he died, the assailant shall be put to death; he is a murderer; the blood avenger may kill the murderer when he meets him.
22 But if he pushed him accidentally, without malice, or threw an object at him without premeditation,
23 or, with any stone which is deadly, and without seeing [his victim] he threw it down at him and it killed him, but he was not his enemy and bore him no malice
24 Then the congregation shall judge between the assailant and the blood avenger, on the basis of these judgments.
25 The congregation shall protect the murderer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall remain there until the Kohen Gadol, who anointed him with the sacred oil, dies.
26 But if the murderer goes beyond the border of the city of refuge to which he had fled,
27 and the blood avenger finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the blood avenger slays the murderer, he has no blood.
28 For he shall remain in his city of refuge until the Kohen Gadol dies, and only after the Kohen Gadol has died, may the murderer return to the land which is his possession.
29 These shall be for you a statute of justice for all your generations, in all your dwelling places.
30 Whoever [namely the blood avenger] kills a person, based on the testimony of witnesses, he shall slay the murderer. A single witness may not testify against a person so that he should die.
31 You shall not accept ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, for he shall be put to death.
32 You shall not accept ransom for one who has fled to his city of refuge, to allow him to return to live in the Land, before the kohen has died.
33 And you shall not corrupt the land in which you live, for the blood corrupts the land, and the blood which is shed in the land cannot be atoned for except through the blood of the one who shed it.
34 And you shall not defile the land where you reside, in which I dwell, for I am the Lord Who dwells among the children of Israel.