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And the Lord spake
unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near
Jericho, saying,
02 Command the children of Israel, that
they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of
their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall
give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities
round about them.
03 And the cities shall they have to dwell
in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their
cattle, and for their goods, and for all their
beasts.
04 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye
shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the
wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits
round about.
05 And ye shall measure from without the
city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on
the south side two thousand cubits, and on the
west side two thousand cubits, and on the north
side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be
in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs
of the cities.
06 And among the cities which ye shall give
unto the Levites there shall be six cities for
refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer,
that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall
add forty and two cities.
07 So all the cities which ye shall give to
the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them
shall ye give with their suburbs.
08 And the cities which ye shall give shall
be of the possession of the children of Israel:
from them that have many ye shall give many; but
from them that have few ye shall give few: every
one shall give of his cities unto the Levites
according to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
09 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into
the land of Canaan;
11 Then ye shall appoint you cities to be
cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may
flee thither, which killeth any person at
unawares.
12 And they shall be unto you cities for
refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die
not, until he stand before the congregation in
judgment.
13 And of these cities which ye shall give
six cities shall ye have for refuge.
14 Ye shall give three cities on this side
Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the
land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
15 These six cities shall be a refuge, both
for the children of Israel, and for the stranger,
and for the sojourner among them: that every one
that killeth any person unawares may flee
thither.
16 And if he smite him with an instrument
of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the
murderer shall surely be put to death.
17 And if he smite him with throwing a
stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a
murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death.
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18 Or if he smite him with an hand weapon
of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is
a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death.
19 The revenger of blood himself shall slay
the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay
him.
20 But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl
at him by laying of wait, that he die;
21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand,
that he die: he that smote him shall surely be
put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger
of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth
him.
22 But if he thrust him suddenly without
enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without
laying of wait,
23 Or with any stone, wherewith a man may
die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that
he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his
harm:
24 Then the congregation shall judge
between the slayer and the revenger of blood
according to these judgments:
25 And the congregation shall deliver the
slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood,
and the congregation shall restore him to the
city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he
shall abide in it unto the death of the high
priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.
26 But if the slayer shall at any time come
without the border of the city of his refuge,
whither he was fled;
27 And the revenger of blood find him
without the borders of the city of his refuge,
and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he
shall not be guilty of blood:
28 Because he should have remained in the
city of his refuge until the death of the high
priest: but after the death of the high priest
the slayer shall return into the land of his
possession.
29 So these things shall be for a statute
of judgment unto you throughout your generations
in all your dwellings.
30 Whoso killeth any person, the murderer
shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses:
but one witness shall not testify against any
person to cause him to die.
31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction
for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of
death: but he shall be surely put to death.
32 And ye shall take no satisfaction for
him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that
he should come again to dwell in the land, until
the death of the priest.
33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein
ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the
land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed
therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
34 Defile not therefore the land which ye
shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord
dwell among the children of Israel.
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