Numbers 35 · Geneva Bible Notes (1560) · Commentaries (Good Books Free)

² ^a Because they had no inheritance assigned them in the land of Canaan.

² ^b God wolde haue them scatered through all the land, because the people might be preserued by them in the obedience of God & his lawe.

² ^! Vnto the Leuites are giuen cities and suburbes.

⁵ ^c So that in all were thre thousand: and in the compasse of these two thousand they might plant & sowe.

¹¹ ^! The cities of refuge.

¹² ^d Meaning from the next of kinred, who oght to pursue the cause.

¹⁴ ^e Among the Reubenites, Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh.

¹⁵ ^/ Ebr. among them.

¹⁶ ^! The lawe of murther.

¹⁶ ^f Wittingly, and willingly.

¹⁷ ^g That is, with a big and dangerous stone: in Ebr. with a stone of his hand.

²² ^/ Or, sodenly.

²² ^/ Ebr. [?].

²⁴ ^h That is, his next kinsman.

²⁵ ⁱ Vnder this figure is declared that our sinnes colde not be remitted, but by the death of the hie Priest, Jesus Christ.

²⁷ ^k By the sentence of the judge.

²⁹ ^l A lawe to judge murthers done, ether of purpose or vnadvisedly.

³⁰ ^! For one mans witnes shal no man be condemned.

³¹ ^m Which purposely hathe committed murther.

³³ ^/ Or, murther.

³³ ⁿ So God is mindful of the blood wrongfully shed that he maketh his domme creatures to demande vengeance thereof.

Geneva Bible Notes (1560)Numbers 35