Exodus 21:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.”
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“If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 21:13 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 35:6Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
- Numbers 35:10“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Numbers 35:11designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
- Deuteronomy 4:41Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east
- Deuteronomy 19:1When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
- Deuteronomy 19:2then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 19:7This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
- Deuteronomy 19:14You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
- Joshua 20:1Then the LORD said to Joshua,
- Joshua 20:2“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
- 1 Samuel 24:4So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up secretly and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
- 1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s anointed.’
- 1 Samuel 24:18And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
- 2 Samuel 16:10But the king replied, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses me because the LORD told him, ‘Curse David,’ who can ask, ‘Why did you do this?’”
- Isaiah 10:7But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
- Micah 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
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