Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
Then
the LORD said
to
Joshua,
The LORD also
spake
unto
Joshua, saying,
“Tell
the
Israelites
to designate
the cities of refuge, as
I instructed
you through
Moses ,
Speak
to the children
of
Israel,
saying,
Appoint
out
for
you
cities of refuge, whereof
I spake
unto
you by
the
hand
of
Moses :
so
that anyone
who
kills
another
unintentionally
or
accidentally
may flee there.
These
will
be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
That the
slayer
that
killeth
any
person
unawares
and
unwittingly
may flee thither:
and
they
shall
be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
When someone
flees
to
one of these
cities ,
stands
at the entrance
of the city
gate, and states
his case
before
its
elders, they are
to
bring
him into the city and give him a place to
live
among them.
And
when he
that
doth
flee
unto
one of those
cities shall
stand
at the entering
of the gate of
the
city
, and shall
declare
his cause
in
the
ears
of
the
elders of
that
city
, they shall
take
him into the city unto
them,
and give him a place ,
that
he
may
dwell
among them.
Now
if the avenger of blood pursues
him, they must
not surrender
the manslayer
into his hand ,
because that
man
killed
his neighbor accidentally
without
prior
malice
.
And
if the avenger of blood pursue
after
him, then
they shall
not deliver
the slayer
up
into his hand ;
because he
smote
his neighbor unwittingly,
and
hated
him
not
beforetime
.
He is
to
stay
in that city until he stands
trial
before the assembly
and until the death of the high priest serving
at
that time.
Then the manslayer
may
return to
his own home
in
the city from which
he fled. ”
And
he shall
dwell
in that city ,
until he stand
before the congregation
for
judgment,
and until the death of the high priest that shall
be
in
those
days:
then shall
the slayer
return ,
and
come
unto
his own city,
and
unto
his
own
house,
unto
the city from whence
he fled.
So
they set
apart
Kedesh in Galilee in the
hill
country
of
Naphtali, Shechem in the
hill
country
of
Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba
(that
is
, Hebron )
in the hill
country
of Judah.
And
they appointed
Kedesh in Galilee in mount
Naphtali, and
Shechem in mount
Ephraim, and Kirjatharba
, which
is
Hebron ,
in the mountain
of Judah.
And beyond
the Jordan ,
east
of
Jericho, they designated
Bezer on
the wilderness plateau
from
the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from
the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from
the tribe of Manasseh.
And on
the other
side
Jordan by
Jericho eastward
, they assigned
Bezer in
the wilderness upon
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.
These are
the cities appointed for all the Israelites
and foreigners
among them, so
that anyone
who
kills
a
person unintentionally
may
flee there
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior
to
standing
trial
before the assembly
.
These were
the cities appointed for all the children
of
Israel,
and for
the
stranger
that
sojourneth
among them, that whosoever
killeth
any
person at
unawares
might
flee thither,
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood ,
until
he
stood
before the congregation
.
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