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Joshua

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Chapter 20

¹Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, ²“Speak to the people of Israel, saying, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses, ³that the manslayer who strikes any person unintentionally or unawares may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood. ⁴He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city to them and give him a place, and he shall remain with them. ⁵And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not deliver the manslayer over to him, because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and did not hate him in the past. ⁶And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the city from which he fled.’ ⁷So 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. ⁸And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and 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 people of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that anyone who killed a person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he had stood before the congregation.