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JOSHUA ยท Chapter 20
20:1 The LORD also spoke unto Joshua, saying,
20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities
of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand of Moses:
20:3 That the slayer that kills any person unexpectedly and unwittingly
may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
20:4 And when he that does 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.
20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall
not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he stroke his neighbour
unwittingly, and hated him not in time past.
20:6 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.
20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem
in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of
Judah.
20:8 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.
20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel,
and for the stranger that sojourns among them, that whosoever kills any
person at unexpectedly might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the
avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
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