H5892B–עִיר–ir

These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

הֶֽעָרִ֛ים (עָרִ֛ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.

הֶֽעָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”

The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns.

לָעִ֗יר (עִ֗יר) 'Ir “city”וְהָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”הֶעָרִֽים׃ (עָרִֽים) 'a.Rim “cities”

And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.

הֶֽעָרִ֗ים (עָרִ֗ים) 'a.Rim “cities”עָרֵ֣י 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”עִֽיר׃ 'Ir “citi[es]”

Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

הֶעָרִ֗ים (עָרִ֗ים) 'a.Rim “cities”עִ֑יר 'Ir “citi[es]”

And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to th

וְהֶֽעָרִ֗ים (עָרִ֗ים) 'a.Rim “cities”מֵעָרָ֖יו (עָרָ֖י) 'a.Ra “cities”

Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

עָרִ֔ים 'a.Rim “cities”עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “cities of”

In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

הֶעָרִ֛ים (עָרִ֛ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

וְהֶעָרִ֖ים (עָרִ֖ים) 'a.Rim “cities”עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “cities of”

Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

הֶעָרִ֗ים (עָרִ֗ים) 'a.Rim “cities”הֶֽעָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”עָרֵ֥י 'a.Rei “cities of”

For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.

הֶעָרִ֥ים (עָרִ֥ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was mar

עִ֥יר 'ir “[the] city of”

But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,

עִ֣יר 'ir “[the] city of”

And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

עִ֣יר 'ir “[the] city of”

Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

בְעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “[the] city of”

And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest.

עִ֣יר 'ir “[the] city of”

And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.

הֶֽעָרִ֔ים (עָרִ֔ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

עָרִ֛ים 'a.Rim “[the] cities”

At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:

עָרָיו֙ (עָרָי) 'a.Ra “cities”עִ֣יר 'ir “city of”

Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

הֶעָרִ֖ים (עָרִ֖ים) 'a.Rim “cities”

From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God gave them all into our hands:

וְהָעִ֨יר (עִ֨יר) 'Ir “city”

But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, that is, all the side of the river Jabbok or the towns of the hill-country, wherever the Lord our God had said we were not to go.

וְעָרֵ֣י (עָרֵ֣י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take.

עָרָיו֙ (עָרָי) 'a.Ra “cities”עִיר֙ 'ir “citi[es]”

All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.

עָרִ֧ים 'a.Rim “[were] cities”מֵעָרֵ֥י (עָרֵ֥י) 'a.Rei “[the] cities of”

And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.

עִ֣יר 'ir “city of”