Verse
WEB
World English Bible
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
Yahweh
spoke
to Joshua, saying,
Then
the
LORD
said
to Joshua,
Speak
to
the children
of
Israel,
saying,
Assign
you
the cities of refuge, of
which
I spoke
to
you by
Moses,
“Tell
the Israelites
to
designate
the cities of refuge, as
I instructed
you through
Moses,
that the
manslayer
who kills any
person
unwittingly
[and]
unawares
may flee there :
and
they
shall
be to
you
for
a
refuge from the avenger of blood.
so
that anyone
who kills another
unintentionally
or
accidentally
may flee there .
These
will
be your
refuge from the avenger of blood.
He
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;
and
they shall
take
him into the city to
them,
and give him a place ,
that
he
may
dwell
among them.
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.
If the avenger of blood pursue
after
him, then
they shall
not deliver
up
the manslayer into his hand ;
because he
struck
his neighbor unawares,
and
didn't
hate
him
before
.
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
.
He shall
dwell
in that city ,
until he stand
before the congregation
for
judgment,
until the death of the high priest that shall
be
in
those
days:
then shall
the manslayer return ,
and
come
to his own city,
and
to
his
own
house,
to
the city from whence
he fled.
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. ”
They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill -
country of Naphtali, and
Shechem in the hill -
country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba ( the
same
is Hebron) in the hill -
country of Judah.
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.
Beyond the Jordan at
Jericho eastward
, they assigned
Bezer in
the wilderness in
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.
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.
These were
the appointed
cities for all the children
of
Israel,
and for
the
stranger
who
sojourns
among them, that whoever
kills any
person unwittingly
might
flee there ,
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood ,
until
he
stood
before the congregation
.
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
.
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