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Joshua 20
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- The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
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- Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for
you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
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- That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and
unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger
of blood.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali,
and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the
mountain of Judah.
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- 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.
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- 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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