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Joshua 20

Six Cities of Refuge

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Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

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"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ` 1Designate  athe cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you  2through Moses,

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that the manslayer who  1kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.

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`He shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the  agate of the city and state his case in the hearing of the elders of that city; and they shall  1take him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may dwell among them.

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`Now  aif the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.

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`He shall dwell in that city  auntil he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then the manslayer shall  1return to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.' "

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So they  1set apart  aKedesh in  2Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in  bthe hill country of Judah.

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Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they  1designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plain from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

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 aThese were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever  1kills any person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.



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