Joshua:20

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* And Jehovah spoke to Joshua , saying , * Speak to the sons of Israel , saying , Appoint cities of refuge for you , as I have spoken to you by the hand of Moses , * that the manslayer who in innocence strikes anyone mortally , without knowing , may flee there . And they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood . * And he shall flee to one of those cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city , and shall declare his matter in the ears of the elders of that city . And they shall take him into the city to themselves , and shall give him a place , and he shall live with them . * And if the avenger of blood pursues him , then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand , for he has struck his neighbor without knowing , and did not hate him yesterday and the day before . * And he shall live in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment , until the death of the high priest who is in those days . Then the manslayer shall return and come to his city , and to his house , to the city from where he fled . * And they set apart Kadesh in Galilee , in the hills of Naphtali ; and Shechem in the hills of Ephraim ; and Kirjath-arba ; (it is Hebron ) in the hills of Judah . * And beyond the Jordan , at Jericho eastward , they gave Bezer in the wilderness , on the tableland 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 . * These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel , and for the alien who was living in their midst , that he who had struck anyone mortally without knowing might flee there , and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood , until he stood before the congregation .

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