King James Version
Numbers 35:26 in the King James Version says “But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 35 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge, whither he was fled;”
Numbers 35:26 · KJV
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;
And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood: he: Heb. no blood shall be to him
Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“come”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“come”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“But if the slayer”
H7523properly, to dash in pieces, i.e., kill (a human being), especially to murder
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“without the border”
H1366properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e., (by implication) a boundary; by extension the territory inclosed
“of the city”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“whither he was fled”
H5127to flit, i.e., vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
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