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Joshua 20

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Joshua 20

20Then the LORD said to Joshua:H3068H1696H3091H5592"Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,H1696H1121H3478H559H5414H5892H4733H1696H3027H48723so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.H7523H5221H5315H7684H1847H5127H4733H1350H18184When they flee to one of these cities, they are to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state their case before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to admit them into their city and give them a place to live with them.H5127H259H5892H5975H6607H8179H5892H1696H1697H241H2205H5892H622H5892H5414H4725H34275If the avenger of blood pursues them, the elders must not surrender the accused, because they killed their neighbor unintentionally and without malice aforethought.H1350H1818H7291H310H5462H7523H3027H5221H7453H1097H1847H8130H8543H80326They are to stay in that city until they have stood trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then they may go back to their own home in the town from which they fled."H3427H5892H5975H6440H5712H4941H4194H1419H3548H834H3117H7523H7725H935H5892H1004H5892H51277So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.H6942H6943H1551H2022H5321H7927H2022H669H7153H2275H2022H30638East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.H5676H3383H3405H4217H5414H1221H4057H4334H4294H7205H7216H1568H4294H1410H1474H1316H4294H45199Any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing among them who killed someone accidentally could flee to these designated cities and not be killed by the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.H5892H4152H1121H3478H1616H1481H8432H5221H5315H7684H5127H4191H3027H1350H1818H5975H6440H5712

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