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Six
Cities of Refuge |
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| Joshua 20:1 |
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Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, |
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| Joshua 20:2 |
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"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'Designate
the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses, |
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| Joshua 20:3 |
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that the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally,
without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from
the avenger of blood. |
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| Joshua 20:4 |
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He shall flee to one of these cities, and shall
stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and state his case in the hearing
of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them and
give him a place, so that he may dwell among them. |
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| Joshua 20:5 |
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Now if 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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| Joshua 20:6 |
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He shall dwell in that city until he stands
before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the one who is high priest
in those days. Then the manslayer shall return to his own city and to his own
house, to the city from which he fled.'" |
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| Joshua 20:7 |
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So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill
country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba
(that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. |
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| Joshua 20:8 |
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Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they designated
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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| Joshua 20:9 |
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These were the appointed cities for all the
sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills
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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