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1 # The LORD <03068> also spake <01696> (8762) unto Joshua <03091>, saying <0559> (8800),
2 Speak <01696> (8761) to the children <01121> of Israel <03478>, saying <0559> (8800), Appoint out <05414> (8798) for you cities <05892> of refuge <04733>, whereof I spake <01696> (8765) unto you by the hand <03027> of Moses <04872>:
3 That the slayer <07523> (8802) that killeth <05221> (8688) any person <05315> unawares <07684> and unwittingly <01847> may flee <05127> (8800) thither: and they shall be your refuge <04733> from the avenger <01350> (8802) of blood <01818>.
4 And when he that doth flee <05127> (8804) unto one <0259> of those cities <05892> shall stand <05975> (8804) at the entering <06607> of the gate <08179> of the city <05892>, and shall declare <01696> (8765) his cause <01697> in the ears <0241> of the elders <02205> of that city <05892>, they shall take <0622> (8804) him into the city <05892> unto them, and give <05414> (8804) him a place <04725>, that he may dwell <03427> (8804) among them.
5 And if the avenger <01350> (8802) of blood <01818> pursue <07291> (8799) after <0310> him, then they shall not deliver <05462> (8686) the slayer <07523> (8802) up into his hand <03027>; because he smote <05221> (8689) his neighbour <07453> unwittingly <01097> <01847>, and hated <08130> (8802) him not beforetime <08543> <08032> .
6 And he shall dwell <03427> (8804) in that city <05892>, until he stand <05975> (8800) before <06440> the congregation <05712> for judgment <04941>, and until the death <04194> of the high <01419> priest <03548> that <0834> shall be in those days <03117>: then shall the slayer <07523> (8802) return <07725> (8799), and come <0935> (8804) unto his own city <05892>, and unto his own house <01004>, unto the city <05892> from whence he fled <05127> (8804).
7 # And they appointed <06942> (8686) Kedesh <06943> in Galilee <01551> in mount <02022> Naphtali <05321> , and Shechem <07927> in mount <02022> Ephraim <0669>, and Kirjatharba <07153>, which is Hebron <02275>, in the mountain <02022> of Judah <03063>.
8 And on the other side <05676> Jordan <03383> by Jericho <03405> eastward <04217>, they assigned <05414> (8804) Bezer <01221> in the wilderness <04057> upon the plain <04334> out of the tribe <04294> of Reuben <07205>, and Ramoth <07216> in Gilead <01568> out of the tribe <04294> of Gad <01410>, and Golan <01474> in Bashan <01316> out of the tribe <04294> of Manasseh <04519>.
9 These were the cities <05892> appointed <04152> for all the children <01121> of Israel <03478>, and for the stranger <01616> that sojourneth <01481> (8802) among <08432> them, that whosoever killeth <05221> (8688) any person <05315> at unawares <07684> might flee <05127> (8800) thither, and not die <04191> (8799) by the hand <03027> of the avenger <01350> (8802) of blood <01818>, until he stood <05975> (8800) before <06440> the congregation <05712>.