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Joshua 20:1 (show verse)
And LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
Joshua 20:2 (show verse)
Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Assign for you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
Joshua 20:3 (show verse)
that the manslayer who kills any soul unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there. And they shall be to you for a 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 declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, th
Joshua 20:5 (show verse)
And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand, because he smote his neighbor unawares, and did not hate him formerly.
Joshua 20:6 (show verse)
And he shall dwell in that city, until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest who shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house,
Joshua 20:7 (show verse)
And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country 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 assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain 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 stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any soul unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood befo