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Joshua 20:1 (show verse)
And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,
Joshua 20:2 (show verse)
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Appoint cities of refuge for you, as I have spoken to you by the hand of Moses;
Joshua 20:3 (show verse)
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.
Joshua 20:4 (show verse)
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 cause in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to themselves and make him a place, and he shall live with them.
Joshua 20:5 (show verse)
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 in past time.
Joshua 20:6 (show verse)
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.
Joshua 20:7 (show verse)
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.
Cities of refuge » Names &c of
Galilee » Pprovince of
Galilee » The northern district of palestine » A city of refuge in
Hebron » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, south of jerusalem » A city of refuge
Kedesh » Also called kedesh-naphtali » A city of refuge
Refuge » Cities of » List of
Shechem » City of
Shechem » Also called sychar, a city of refuge in mount ephraim
or shechem Sychar » City of
Galilee » Pprovince of
Galilee » The northern district of palestine » A city of refuge in
Hebron » A city » A city of the tribe of judah, south of jerusalem » A city of refuge
Kedesh » Also called kedesh-naphtali » A city of refuge
Refuge » Cities of » List of
Shechem » City of
Shechem » Also called sychar, a city of refuge in mount ephraim
or shechem Sychar » City of
Joshua 20:8 (show verse)
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.
Joshua 20:9 (show verse)
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 killed anyone without knowing might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.