וְהֶעָרִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּתֵּ֑נוּ שֵׁשׁ עָרֵ֥י מִקְלָ֖ט תִּהְיֶ֥ינָה לָכֶֽם
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Numbers 35:13
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Numbers 35:13 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
Download a study sheet
One document with this verse’s original text, its word-by-word gloss line, the meaning frame, cross-references with their text, attributed commentary, and full source and license credits — printable, and it pastes into notes with its structure intact.
This verse Autodidact and up
A passage Seminary Student
Up to 50 verses in one chapter. A passage sheet keeps up to 6 commentary sources and 12 cross-references per verse, in the order this page ranks them, and says so on the sheet whenever that leaves anything out. Ask for a single verse and you get the Autodidact verse sheet above.
Everything on this page stays free to read, with no account — the sheet is a download of what is already on screen, not access to it.
Want to remove ads?
Support Godless Engineer
Compare translations 3
The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
-
World English Bible Public Domain
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
-
King James Version Public Domain
And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.
-
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the cities that you shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
-
World English Bible Public Domain
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
-
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
-
Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
-
King James Version Public Domain
And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.
-
American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
-
Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
-
Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And of the cities which ye shall giue, sixe cities shall ye haue for refuge.
-
Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,
-
Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
`As to the cities which ye give -- six `are' cities of refuge to you;
-
Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
As for the cities which you give, six [are] cities of refuge to you;
-
Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You must choose six cities as cities of refuge.
-
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And the cities that you shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you.
-
Darby Bible Public Domain
And the cities that ye shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you.
-
World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
-
Webster's Bible Public Domain
And of these cities which ye shall give, six cities shall ye have for refuge.
-
Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The towns you choose will be your six sanctuary towns.
-
Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;
-
JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And as to the cities which ye shall give, there shall be for you six cities of refuge.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
Word by word
More ways to search: Search by grammar → Find every occurrence → Compare this word →
Practice this passage: Drill this verse → Learn its vocabulary →
מִקְלָ֖ט
miqlâṭ
H4733
“refuge”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 20× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Numbers 35:6
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
refuge, asylum
- וְהֶעָרִ֖ים ʻîyr H5892 “and · the · cities” Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- אֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
- תִּתֵּ֑נוּ nâthan H5414 “to give” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural
- שֵׁשׁ shêsh H8337 “six” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- עָרֵ֥י ʻîyr H5892 “cities of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
- מִקְלָ֖ט miqlâṭ H4733 “refuge” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- תִּהְיֶ֥ינָה hâyâh H1961 “to be” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Plural
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מִקְלָ֖ט refuge H4733 — appearing just 20 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִקְלָ֖ט refuge H4733 occurs in 20 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- תִּתֵּ֑נוּ Qal · Imperfect
- תִּהְיֶ֥ינָה Qal · Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וְהֶעָרִ֖ים city H5892 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 11 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ὁ πόλις ὅς δίδωμι ὁ ἕξ πόλις φυγαδευτήριον εἰμί σύ
And the cities which you⌃ shall assign, even the six cities, shall be places of refuge for you.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
-
Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְקִרְוַיָא דִי תִתְּנוּן שִׁית קִרְוֵי שֵׁזָבוּתָא יֶהֶוְיַן לְכוֹן
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
-
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וְקִרְוַיָא דְתִתְּנוּן שִׁית קִרְוִין קַלְטַן קָטוֹלָא יֶהֱוְיַן לְכוֹן
And these cities which yougive shall be six cities of refuge for the manslayer;
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Numbers, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 8 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is miqlâṭ (“refuge”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word miqlâṭ carries the sense “refuge.” How does it shape the verse?
- Numbers 35:6 shares the word «refuge» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “city” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- The verb «תִּתֵּ֑נוּ» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how John Gill's Exposition and The Pulpit Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 3 words in this verse.
- “city” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Numbers 35:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.