Bible, King James Version
Joshua
Josh.20
[1] The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
[2] Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out
for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of
Moses:
[3] That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and
unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from
the avenger of blood.
[4] 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.
[5] 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.
[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.
[7] And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount
Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which
is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
[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.
[9] 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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