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MOF JOS Chapter 20

20 Then the Eternal told Joshua 2 to tell the Israelites to “Assign the towns of refuge of which I spoke to you by Moses, 3 so that any homicide who kills anyone by mistake, by accident, may run into one of them; they shall serve as a refuge from the avenger of blood. 4 He shall flee to one of these towns and stand at the entry of the town-gate, telling his case to the sheikhs of that town; they shall let him have a place to stay in among them, 5 and if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not hand the homicide over, because he killed his neighbour by accident, having had no feud with him previously. 6 In that town he shall live till he appears before the community for trial funtil the death of the then high-priest. After that the homicide may return to his own town and his own home, from which he ran away.” 7 So they consecrated Kedesh in Galilee, in the highlands of Naphtali, Shechem in the highlands of Ephraim, and Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron) in the highlands of Judah; 8 on the eastern side of the Jordan they assigned Bezor in the desert, on the table-land belonging to the clan of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the clan of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the clan of Manasseh. 9 These were the fixed towns for all Israel and also for the aliens resident among them, so. that anyone who killed a person by mistake might flee thither and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he appeared before the community.

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