Joshua:20

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* And Yahweh spake unto Joshua , saying : * Speak unto the sons of Israel , saying , Set out for you the cities of refuge , whereof I spake unto you , by the hand of Moses : * that the manslayer who slayeth a person by mistake , unwittingly , may flee thither , so shall they be unto you for refuge from the blood-redeemer , * and he shall flee unto one of these cities and present himself at the entrance of the gate of the city , and shall speak , in the ears of the elders of that city , his defence , and they shall take him for protection into the city unto them , and shall give him a place , so shall he dwell with them . * And , when the blood-redeemer pursueth after him , then shall they not deliver up the manslayer , into his hand , because , unwittingly , it was that he slew his neighbour , and had not been , cherishing hatred , towards him , aforetime ; * so shall he remain in that city , until he standeth before the assembly , for judgment , until the death of the high-priest who shall be in those days , then , shall the manslayer return , and enter into his own city , and into his own house , within the city from whence he fled . * So then they set apart Kadesh in Galilee , in the hill country of Naphtali , and Shechem , in the hill country of Ephraim , and Kiriath-arba , the same , is Hebron , in the hill country of Judah . * And , beyond the Jordan , by Jericho eastward , they appointed Bezer in the wilderness , in the table-land , 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 cities appointed for all the sons of Israel , and for the sojourner who sojourneth in their midst , that whosoever should slay a person by mistake , might flee thither , and not die by the hand of the blood-redeemer , until he should stand before the assembly .

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