King James Version
Numbers 35:24 in the King James Version says “Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 35 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:”
Numbers 35:24 · KJV
But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,
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:
Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:
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.
But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;
KJV Study — Public Domain
“shall judge”
H8199to judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literal
“Then the congregation”
H5712a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“between the slayer”
H5221to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“and the revenger”
H1350to redeem (according to the middle eastern law of kinship), i.e., to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his wido
“of blood”
H1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“according to these judgments”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
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