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Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 35

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This is a biblical text presenting Numbers 35 in a synoptic, parallel-column format showing three versions side by side: the King James Version (English), the Septuagint (ancient Greek), and the Hebrew Tanakh (Masoretic text). The KJV columns include Strong's Concordance reference numbers embedded inline, making this a scholarly reference edition. The chapter's content covers two related legal ordinances God commands Moses to deliver to the Israelites on the plains of Moab: first, the allocation of 48 cities with surrounding pasturelands to the Levites (who received no land inheritance), with six of those designated as cities of refuge; second, a detailed legal framework distinguishing premeditated murder from accidental homicide, specifying that intentional killers must be executed by the blood-avenger, while unintentional killers may flee to a refuge city and remain protected there until the death of the high priest. The text is notably distinctive in its insistence that no monetary ransom can substitute for capital punishment of a murderer, grounding this prohibition in a theologically significant claim: shed blood defiles the land itself, and only the blood of the killer can atone for it, because God dwells among Israel and the land must remain holy.

Polyglot Bible: Numbers: Numbers 35

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