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The Lord
also spake unto Joshua, saying,
02 Speak to the children of Israel, saying,
Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I
spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
03 That the slayer that killeth any person
unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and
they shall be your refuge from the avenger of
blood.
04 And when he that doth flee unto one of those
cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of
the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears
of the elders of that city, they shall take him
into the city unto them, and give him a place,
that he may dwell among them.
05 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him,
then they shall not deliver the slayer up into
his hand; because he smote his neighbour
unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
06 And he shall dwell in that city, until he
stand before the congregation for judgment, and
until the death of the high priest that shall be
in those days: then shall the slayer return, and
come unto his own city, and unto his own house,
unto the city from whence he fled.
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07 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount
Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and
Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of
Judah.
08 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho
eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness
upon 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.
09 These were the cities appointed for all the
children of Israel, and for the stranger that
sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any
person at unawares might flee thither, and not
die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he
stood before the congregation.
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