Joshua 20
1. The LORD also spake * unto Joshua, saying * ,
2. Speak * to the children of Israel, saying * , Appoint out * for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake * unto you by the hand of Moses:
3. That the slayer * that killeth * any person unawares and unwittingly may flee * thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger * of blood.
4. 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.
5. And if the avenger * of blood pursue * after him, then they shall not deliver * the slayer * up into his hand; because he smote * his neighbour unwittingly, and hated * him not beforetime.
6. 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 * .
7. And they appointed * Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
8. 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.
9. 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.
