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Joshua 20 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Six Cities of Refuge

(Num 35:9–28; Deu 19:1–13 )

Jos 20:1

Jos 20:1Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

Jos 20:2

Jos 20:2“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘[fn]Designate the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you [fn]through Moses,

Jos 20:3

Jos 20:3that the manslayer who [fn]kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Jos 20:4

Jos 20:4‘He shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and state his case in the hearing of the elders of that city; and they shall [fn]take him into the city to them and give him a place, so that he may dwell among them.

Jos 20:5

Jos 20:5‘Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.

Jos 20:6

Jos 20:6‘He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then the manslayer shall [fn]return to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.’”

Jos 20:7

Jos 20:7So they [fn]set apart Kedesh in [fn]Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Jos 20:8

Jos 20:8Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they [fn]designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plain from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

Jos 20:9

Jos 20:9These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever [fn]kills any person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.
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NASB95 Footnotes
Literally: Set for yourselves
Literally: by the hand of
Literally: smites
Literally: gather
Literally: return and come
Literally: sanctified
Hebrew: Galil
Literally: set
Literally: smites
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