Joshua 20:3-6
3 so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.(A)
4 When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before(a) the elders of that city, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.(B)
5 And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not hand the one who committed manslaughter over to him, for he killed his neighbor accidentally and did not hate him beforehand.
6 He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time.(C) Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to his own city from which he fled.”
Footnotes:
a.
Joshua 20:4: Lit in the ears of
Cross references:
B.
Joshua 20:4:
Ruth 4:1