Números 35:11

11 escogeréis para vosotros ciudades para que sean vuestras ciudades de refugio, a fin de que pueda huir allí el homicida que haya matado a alguna persona sin intención.

Números 35:11 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 35:11

Then ye shall appoint your cities to be cities of refuge for
you
And, according to the Jewish writers ^F9, these were neither to be made large nor little, but middling; and they appointed them where there were markets and fairs, at which goods were to be sold; and where there was plenty of water, and a multitude of people; and where there were but few, they fetched others from other places; and they neither made nets for hunting, nor twisted ropes in them, nor sold any warlike instruments, lest the avenger of blood should use himself to come thither, under pretence of buying such things, and kill the manslayer:

that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares;
or through error
^F11, or mistake, not on purpose, with design, or through malice and enmity, as is afterwards more largely explained.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Maimon. Rotzeach, c. 8. sect. 8. Vid. T. Bab. Maccot, fol. 10. 1.
F11 (hggvb) "per errorem", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; "per imprudentiam", Tigurine version: Vatablus; "in ignorantia", Montanus.

Números 35:11 In-Context

9 Luego el SEÑOR habló a Moisés, diciendo:

10 Habla a los hijos de Israel, y diles: "Cuando crucéis el Jordán a la tierra de Canaán,

11 escogeréis para vosotros ciudades para que sean vuestras ciudades de refugio, a fin de que pueda huir allí el homicida que haya matado a alguna persona sin intención.

12 "Las ciudades serán para vosotros como refugio del vengador, para que el homicida no muera hasta que comparezca delante de la congregación para juicio.

13 "Las ciudades que daréis serán vuestras seis ciudades de refugio.