Numbers:35:11-34
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Then ye shall appoint unto yourselves proper cities ,
that they be cities of refuge for you ;
and thither shall flee the manslayer who killeth any person at unawares .
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And these cities shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger ;
that the manslayer die not ,
until he have stood before the congregation for trial .
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And the cities which ye shall give ,
shall be six cities of refuge unto you ;
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Three of these cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan ,
and the three other cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan :
cities of refuge shall they be .
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For the children of Israel ,
and for the stranger ,
and for the sojourner among them ,
shall these six cities be for a refuge :
that every one may flee thither that killeth any person at unawares .
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And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron ,
so that he die ,
he is a murderer :
the murderer shall surely be put to death .
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And if he have smitten him with a stone which one can take in the hand ,
wherewith he may die ,
and he die ,
he is a murderer :
the murderer shall surely be put to death .
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Or if he have smitten him with an article of wood ,
which one can take in the hand ,
wherewith he may die ,
and he die ,
he is a murderer :
the murderer shall surely be put to death .
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The avenger of the blood himself shall slay the murderer ;
when he meeteth him ,
shall he slay him .
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And if he push against him out of hatred ,
or he have hurled at him by lying in wait ,
that he die ;
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Or if in enmity he have smitten him with his hand ,
that he died ,
he that smote him shall surely be put to death ;
he is a murderer :
the avenger of the blood shall slay the murderer ,
when he meeteth with him .
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But if he have pushed against him accidentally without enmity ,
or have cast upon him any thing without lying in wait ,
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Or with any stone wherewith a man may die ,
without seeing him ,
and he have let it fall upon him that he died ;
whereas he was not his enemy ,
and did not seek his harm :
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Then shall the congregation judge between the slayer and the avenger of the blood according to these institutions ;
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And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of the blood ,
and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge ,
whither he had fled ;
and he shall abide in it until the death of the high
priest ,
who hath been anointed with the holy oil .
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But if the manslayer should at any time pass the boundary of the city of his refuge ,
whither he may have fled ;
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And the avenger of the blood should find him beyond the boundary of the city of his refuge ,
and the avenger of the blood should kill the manslayer :
he shall not be guilty of blood ;
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Because in the city of his refuge shall be remain until the death of the high
priest ;
but after the death of the high
priest the manslayer may return unto the land of his possession .
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And these things shall be unto you for a statute of justice throughout your generations ,
in all your dwellings .
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Whoever it be that killeth a person ,
according to the testimony of witnesses shall the murderer be put to death ;
but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die .
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Moreover ye shall take no redemption money for the person of a murderer ,
who is guilty of death ;
but he shall surely be put to death .
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And ye shall take no redemption money for him that hath fled to the city of his refuge ,
that he should come again to dwell in the land ,
until the death of the priest .
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And ye shall not defile the land wherein ye are ;
for the blood it is which defileth the land :
and no atonement can be made unto the land for the blood which hath been shed therein ,
except through the blood of him that hath shed it .
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And ye shall not render unclean the land which ye inhabit ,
in the midst of which I dwell ;
for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the children of Israel .