1And the Lord spoke these things also to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, over against Jericho:

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Numbers 22:1, Numbers 22:1, Numbers 31:12, Numbers 33:50, Numbers 26:63

2Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites out of their possessions,

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Joshua 14:3, Joshua 14:4, Joshua 14:3, Joshua 14:4, Ezekiel 48:8

3Cities to dwell in, and their suburbs round about: that they may abide in the towns, and the suburbs may be for them cattle and beasts:

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2 Chronicles 11:14, Joshua 21:11, Ezekiel 45:2, 2 Chronicles 11:14, Joshua 21:11

4Which suburbs shall reach from the walls of the cities outward, a thousand paces on every side:

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5Toward the east shall be two thousand cubits: and toward the south in like manner shall be two thousand cubits: toward the sea also, which looketh to the west, shall be the same extent: and the north side shall be bounded with the like limits. And the cities shall be in the midst, and the suburbs without.

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6And among the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, six shall be separated for refuge to fugitives, that he who hath shed blood may flee to them: and besides these there shall be other forty-two cities,

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Joshua 21:13, Joshua 21:3, Joshua 21:13, Joshua 21:3, Joshua 21:38

7That is, in all forty-eight with their suburbs.

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1 Chronicles 6:54, 1 Chronicles 6:81, Joshua 21:3, Joshua 21:42, 1 Chronicles 6:54

8And of these cities which shall be given out of the possessions of the children of Israel, from them that have more, more shall be taken: and from them that have less, fewer. Each shall give towns to the Levites according to the extent of their inheritance.

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Numbers 33:54, Numbers 26:54, Numbers 33:54, Numbers 26:54, Joshua 21:1

9The Lord said to Moses:

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10Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan into the land of Chanaan,

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Numbers 34:2, Deuteronomy 12:9, Leviticus 14:34, Deuteronomy 19:1, Deuteronomy 19:2

11Determine what cities shall be for the refuge of fugitives, who have shed blood against their will.

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Exodus 21:13, Exodus 21:13, Joshua 20:2, Numbers 35:6, Joshua 20:2

12And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.

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Joshua 20:3, Joshua 20:6, Deuteronomy 19:6, Joshua 20:3, Joshua 20:6

13And of those cities, that are separated for the refuge of fugitives,

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14Three shall be beyond the Jordan, and three in the land of Chanaan,

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Deuteronomy 4:41, Deuteronomy 4:43, Joshua 20:7, Joshua 20:9, Deuteronomy 19:8

15As well for the children of Israel as for strangers and sojourners, that he may flee to them, who hath shed blood against his will.

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Numbers 15:16, Numbers 15:16, Leviticus 24:22, Romans 3:29, Exodus 12:49

16If any man strike with iron, and he die that was struck: he shall be guilty of murder, and he himself shall die.

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Leviticus 24:17, Leviticus 24:17, Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, Deuteronomy 19:11

17If he throw a stone, and he that is struck die: he shall be punished in the same manner.

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Exodus 21:18, Exodus 21:18

18If he that is struck with wood die: he shall be revenged by the blood of him that struck him.

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19The kinsman of him that was slain, shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.

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Joshua 20:5, Numbers 35:21, Deuteronomy 19:6, Joshua 20:3, Deuteronomy 19:12

20If through hatred any one push a man, or fling any thing at him with ill design:

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Exodus 21:14, Exodus 21:14, Deuteronomy 19:11, Deuteronomy 19:11, 2 Samuel 20:10

21Or being his enemy, strike him with his hand, and he die: the striker shall be guilty of murder: the kinsman of him that was slain as soon as he findeth him, shall kill him.

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22But if by chance medley, and without hatred,

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Exodus 21:13, Numbers 35:11, Exodus 21:13, Numbers 35:11, Joshua 20:5

23And enmity, he do any of these things,

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24And this be proved in the hearing of the people, and the cause be debated between him that struck, and the next of kin:

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Joshua 20:6, Joshua 20:6, Numbers 35:12, Numbers 35:12

25The innocent shall be delivered from the hand of the revenger, and shall be brought back by sentence into the city, to which he had fled, and he shall abide there until the death of the high priest, that is anointed with the holy oil.

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Exodus 29:7, Exodus 29:7, Leviticus 4:3, Leviticus 21:10, Hebrews 7:25

26If the murderer be found without the limits of the cities that are appointed for the banished,

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27And be struck by him that is the avenger of blood: he shall not be guilty that killed him.

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Deuteronomy 19:10, Deuteronomy 19:6, Exodus 22:2, Deuteronomy 19:10, Deuteronomy 19:6

28For the fugitive ought to have stayed in the city until the death of the high priest: and after he is dead, then shall the manslayer return to his own country.

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Hebrews 10:39, Hebrews 6:4, Hebrews 6:8, Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 9:11

29These things shall be perpetual, and for an ordinance in all your dwellings.

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Numbers 27:11, Numbers 27:11, Numbers 27:1, Numbers 27:1

30The murderer shall be punished by witnesses: none shall be condemned upon the evidence of one man.

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Hebrews 10:28, Hebrews 10:28, Matthew 18:16, Deuteronomy 19:15, Matthew 18:16

31You shall not take money of him that is guilty of blood, but he shall die forthwith.

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Genesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, Exodus 21:14, 2 Samuel 12:13, 1 Kings 2:28

32The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities.

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Acts 4:12, Galatians 3:10, Galatians 3:13, Revelation 5:9, Galatians 2:21

33Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.

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Luke 11:50, Luke 11:51, Luke 11:50, Luke 11:51, Psalms 106:38

34And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.

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Numbers 5:3, Numbers 5:3, Psalms 135:21, Psalms 135:21, Revelation 21:27