The Book of Joshua (WEB)
20: 1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, 20:2Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the
cities of refuge, whereof I spoke to you by Moses, 20:3that the manslayer who kills any person
unwittingly and unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of
blood. 20:4He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city,
and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to
them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. 20:5If the avenger of blood pursue after
him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor
unawares, and didn't hate him before. 20:6He shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall
the manslayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from whence he
fled. 20:7They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the
hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
20:8Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of
the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the
tribe of Manasseh. 20:9These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the
stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there,
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
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