Joshua:20

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* And Jehovah spoke to Joshua , saying , * Speak to the children of Israel , saying , Appoint for yourselves the cities of refuge , whereof I spoke unto you through Moses , * that the slayer who unwittingly without intent smiteth any one mortally may flee thither : and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood . * And he shall flee unto one of those cities and stand at the entrance of the city-gate , and shall declare his matter in the ears of the elders of that city ; and they shall take him into the city unto them , and give him a place , that he may dwell among them . * And if the avenger of blood pursue after him , they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand ; for he smote his neighbour unwittingly , and hated him not previously . * And he shall dwell in that city , until he have stood before the assembly in judgment , 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 . * And they hallowed Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali , and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim , and Kirjath-Arba , that is , Hebron , in the hill-country of Judah . * And beyond the Jordan from Jericho eastward , they assigned Bezer in the wilderness , in the plateau , out of the tribe of Reuben , and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad , and Golan in Bashan of the tribe of Manasseh . * These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel , and for the stranger that sojourneth among them , that whosoever smiteth any one mortally without intent might flee thither , and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood , until he stood before the assembly .

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