Geneva Bible Notes: Numbers 35

Numbers 35:2 (a) Because they had no inheritance assigned them in the land of Canaan.

Numbers 35:2 (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.

Numbers 35:2 (!) Vnto the Leuites are giuen cities and suburbes.

Numbers 35:5 (c) So that in all were thre thousand: and in the compasse of these two thousand they might plant & sowe.

Numbers 35:11 (!) The cities of refuge.

Numbers 35:12 (d) Meaning from the next of kinred, who oght to pursue the cause.

Numbers 35:14 (e) Among the Reubenites, Gadites, and the halfe tribe of Manasseh.

Numbers 35:15 (/) Ebr. among them.

Numbers 35:16 (!) The lawe of murther.

Numbers 35:16 (f) Wittingly, and willingly.

Numbers 35:17 (g) That is, with a big and dangerous stone: in Ebr. with a stone of his hand.

Numbers 35:22 (/) Or, sodenly.

Numbers 35:22 (/) Ebr. [?].

Numbers 35:24 (h) That is, his next kinsman.

Numbers 35:25 (i) Vnder this figure is declared that our sinnes colde not be remitted, but by the death of the hie Priest, Jesus Christ.

Numbers 35:27 (k) By the sentence of the judge.

Numbers 35:29 (l) A lawe to judge murthers done, ether of purpose or vnadvisedly.

Numbers 35:30 (!) For one mans witnes shal no man be condemned.

Numbers 35:31 (m) Which purposely hathe committed murther.

Numbers 35:33 (/) Or, murther.

Numbers 35:33 (n) So God is mindful of the blood wrongfully shed that he maketh his domme creatures to demande vengeance thereof.