The Latin Vulgate VUL
American Standard Version ASV
1 haec quoque locutus est Dominus ad Mosen in campestribus Moab super Iordanem contra Hiericho
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
2 praecipe filiis Israhel ut dent Levitis de possessionibus suis
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Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.
3 urbes ad habitandum et suburbana earum per circuitum ut ipsi in oppidis maneant et suburbana sint pecoribus ac iumentis
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And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
4 quae a muris civitatum forinsecus per circuitum mille passuum spatio tendentur
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And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.
5 contra orientem duo milia erunt cubiti et contra meridiem similiter duo milia ad mare quoque quod respicit occidentem eadem mensura erit et septentrionalis plaga aequali termino finietur eruntque urbes in medio et foris suburbana
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And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
6 de ipsis autem oppidis quae Levitis dabitis sex erunt in fugitivorum auxilia separata ut fugiat ad ea qui fuderit sanguinem exceptis his alia quadraginta duo oppida
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And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and two cities.
7 id est simul quadraginta octo cum suburbanis suis
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All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them [shall ye give] with their suburbs.
8 ipsaeque urbes quae dabuntur de possessionibus filiorum Israhel ab his qui plus habent plures auferentur et qui minus pauciores singuli iuxta mensuram hereditatis suae dabunt oppida Levitis
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And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many; and from the few ye shall take few: every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the Levites.
9 ait Dominus ad Mosen
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
10 loquere filiis Israhel et dices ad eos quando transgressi fueritis Iordanem in terram Chanaan
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11 decernite quae urbes esse debeant in praesidia fugitivorum qui nolentes sanguinem fuderint
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then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
12 in quibus cum fuerit profugus cognatus occisi eum non poterit occidere donec stet in conspectu multitudinis et causa illius iudicetur
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And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.
13 de ipsis autem urbibus quae ad fugitivorum subsidia separantur
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And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
14 tres erunt trans Iordanem et tres in terra Chanaan
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Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
15 tam filiis Israhel quam advenis atque peregrinis ut confugiat ad eas qui nolens sanguinem fuderit
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For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.
16 si quis ferro percusserit et mortuus fuerit qui percussus est reus erit homicidii et ipse morietur
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But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
17 si lapidem iecerit et ictus occubuerit similiter punietur
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And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
18 si ligno percussus interierit percussoris sanguine vindicabitur
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Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
19 propinquus occisi homicidam interficiet statim ut adprehenderit eum percutiet
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The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.
20 si per odium quis hominem inpulerit vel iecerit quippiam in eum per insidias
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And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,
21 aut cum esset inimicus manu percusserit et ille mortuus fuerit percussor homicidii reus erit cognatus occisi statim ut invenerit eum iugulabit
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or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meeteth him.
22 quod si fortuito et absque odio
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But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,
23 et inimicitiis quicquam horum fecerit
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or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
24 et hoc audiente populo fuerit conprobatum atque inter percussorem et propinquum sanguinis quaestio ventilata
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then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;
25 liberabitur innocens de ultoris manu et reducetur per sententiam in urbem ad quam confugerat manebitque ibi donec sacerdos magnus qui oleo sancto unctus est moriatur
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and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
26 si interfector extra fines urbium quae exulibus deputatae sunt
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But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, whither he fleeth,
27 fuerit inventus et percussus ab eo qui ultor est sanguinis absque noxa erit qui eum occiderit
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and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
28 debuerat enim profugus usque ad mortem pontificis in urbe residere postquam autem ille obierit homicida revertetur in terram suam
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because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.
29 haec sempiterna erunt et legitima in cunctis habitationibus vestris
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And these things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
30 homicida sub testibus punietur ad unius testimonium nullus condemnabitur
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Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
31 non accipietis pretium ab eo qui reus est sanguinis statim et ipse morietur
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Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
32 exules et profugi ante mortem pontificis nullo modo in urbes suas reverti poterunt
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And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
33 ne polluatis terram habitationis vestrae quae insontium cruore maculatur nec aliter expiari potest nisi per eius sanguinem qui alterius sanguinem fuderit
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So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
34 atque ita emundabitur vestra possessio me commorante vobiscum ego enim sum Dominus qui habito inter filios Israhel
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And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.
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