Joshua 20
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- 1The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
- 2Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses.
- 3So that anyone who kills a person unintentionally and without knowledge may flee there, and these cities shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
- 4When the person fleeing to one of these cities arrives, he must stand at the city gate and explain his situation to the city elders. They will then bring him into the city and provide him a place to live among them.
- 5If the avenger of blood pursues after him, they must not hand the slayer over to him, because he struck his neighbor without intent and did not hate him beforehand.
- 6He must stay in that city until he stands before the community for judgment and until the high priest of that time dies. Then the slayer can return to his own city and house, the place he fled from.
- 7They designated Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
- 8On the east side of the Jordan near Jericho, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.
- 9These were the cities designated for all the children of Israel and for any foreigners living among them, so that anyone who accidentally killed another person could flee there and not be killed by the avenger of blood until they stood before the congregation.