ASV_Strong : Joshua 20
1. And Jehovah[H3068] spake[H1696] unto Joshua[H3091], saying[H559],
2. Speak[H1696] to the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478], saying[H559], Assign you[H5414] the cities[H5892] of refuge[H4733], whereof I spake[H1696] unto you by[H3027] Moses[H4872],
3. that the manslayer[H7523] that killeth[H5221] any person[H5315] unwittingly[H7684] and unawares[H7684] may flee[H5127] thither[H4733]: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger[H1350] of blood[H1818].
4. And he shall flee[H5127] unto one[H259] of those cities[H5892], and shall stand[H5975] at the entrance[H6607] of the gate[H8179] of the city[H5892], and declare[H1696] his cause[H1697] in the ears[H241] of the elders[H2205] of that city[H5892]; and they shall take[H622] him into the city[H5892] unto them[H5414], and give him a place[H4725], that he may dwell among them[H3427].
5. And if the avenger[H1350] of blood[H1818] pursue[H7291] after[H310] him[H5462], then they shall not deliver up the manslayer[H7523] into his hand[H3027]; because he smote[H5221] his neighbor[H7453] unawares[H1097], and hated[H8130] him not beforetime[H8543].
6. And he shall dwell[H3427] in that city[H5892], until he stand[H5975] before[H6440] the congregation[H5712] for judgment[H4941], until the death[H4194] of the high[H1419] priest[H3548] that[H834] shall be in those days[H3117]: then shall the manslayer[H7523] return[H7725], and come[H935] unto his own city[H5892], and unto his own house[H1004], unto the city[H5892] from whence he fled[H5127].
7. And they set apart[H6942] Kedesh[H6943] in Galilee[H1551] in the hill-country[H2022] of Naphtali[H5321], and Shechem[H7927] in the hill-country[H2022] of Ephraim[H669], and Kiriath-arba[H7153] (the same is Hebron[H2275]) in the hill-country[H2022] of Judah[H3063].
8. And beyond[H5676] the Jordan[H3383] at Jericho[H3405] eastward[H4217], they assigned[H5414] Bezer[H1221] in the wilderness[H4057] in the plain[H4334] out of the tribe[H4294] of Reuben[H7205], and Ramoth[H7216] in Gilead[H1568] out of the tribe[H4294] of Gad[H1410], and Golan[H1474] in Bashan[H1316] out of the tribe[H4294] of Manasseh[H4519].
9. These were the appointed[H4152] cities[H5892] for all the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478], and for the stranger[H1616] that sojourneth[H1481] among[H8432] them[H5221], that whosoever killeth any person[H5315] unwittingly[H7684] might flee[H5127] thither[H4191], and not die by the hand[H3027] of the avenger[H1350] of blood[H1818], until he stood[H5975] before[H6440] the congregation[H5712].
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