1The Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

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Joshua 13:1, Joshua 13:7, Joshua 7:10, Joshua 6:2, Joshua 5:14

2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

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Deuteronomy 19:2, Deuteronomy 19:13, Deuteronomy 19:2, Deuteronomy 19:13, Deuteronomy 4:41

3that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

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4He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

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Jeremiah 38:7, Jeremiah 38:7, Ruth 4:1, Ruth 4:2, Ruth 4:1

5If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and did not hate him before.

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Numbers 35:12, Numbers 35:12, Numbers 35:25, Numbers 35:25

6He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.'"

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Numbers 35:12, Numbers 35:12, Hebrews 9:26, Hebrews 9:26, Numbers 35:24

7They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

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Joshua 21:11, Joshua 21:11, Joshua 21:32, Luke 1:39, 1 Chronicles 6:76

8Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

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Joshua 21:36, 1 Chronicles 6:78, Joshua 21:36, 1 Chronicles 6:78, Joshua 21:27

9These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.

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Numbers 35:15, Numbers 35:15, Joshua 20:6, Joshua 20:4, Joshua 20:6