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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
Kirjatharba, 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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