Numbers:35:11-34
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then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you ,
that the manslayer who kills any soul accidentally may flee there .
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They shall be cities of refuge for you from the kinsman avenger ,
that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment .
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And out of the cities which you give ,
you shall have six cities of refuge .
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You shall appoint three cities on this side of the Jordan ,
and three cities you shall appoint in the land of Canaan ,
which shall be cities of refuge .
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These six cities shall be for refuge for the children of Israel ,
for the stranger ,
and for the sojourner among them ,
that anyone who kills a soul accidentally may flee there .
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But if he strikes him with an implement of iron ,
so that he dies ,
he is a murderer ;
the murderer shall be executed to death .
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And if he strikes him with a stone in the hand ,
by which one could die ,
and he dies ,
he is a murderer ;
the murderer shall be executed to death .
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Or if he strikes him with a wooden implement in the hand ,
by which one could die ,
and he dies ,
he is a murderer ;
the murderer shall be executed to death .
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The kinsman avenger of blood himself shall put the murderer to death ;
when he meets him ,
he shall put him to death .
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If he pushes him out of hatred ,
or while lying in wait has thrown something at him ,
so that he dies ,
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or in enmity he has struck him with his hand so that he dies ,
the one who struck him shall be executed to death .
He is a murderer .
The kinsman avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him .
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However ,
if he has pushed him suddenly without enmity ,
or has thrown anything at him without lying in wait ,
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or a stone ,
by which a man could die ,
which falls on him without seeing him ,
so that he dies ,
while he was not his enemy or seeking his harm ;
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then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the kinsman avenger of blood according to these judgments .
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Thus the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the kinsman avenger of blood ,
and the congregation shall return him to the city of refuge where he had fled ,
and he shall remain there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil .
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But if the manslayer at any time goes outside the borders of the city of refuge where he fled ,
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and the kinsman avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of his city of refuge ,
and the kinsman avenger of blood kills the manslayer ,
he shall not be guilty of blood ,
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because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest .
But after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession .
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And these things shall be a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings .
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Whoever kills a soul ,
the murderer shall be put to death at the mouth of witnesses ;
but one witness shall not testify against a soul for him to die .
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Moreover you shall take no ransom for the soul of a murderer who is guilty of death ,
but he shall be executed to death .
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And you shall take no ransom for him to flee to his city of refuge ,
to return to dwell in the land until the death of the priest .
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Thus you shall not pollute the land where you are ;
for blood pollutes the land .
And no atonement can be made for the land ,
for the blood that is shed on it ,
except by the blood of him who sheds it .
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Therefore do not defile the land which you inhabit ,
in the midst of which I dwell ;
for I ,
Jehovah ,
dwell among the children of Israel .
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