Joshua 20

Joshua Chapter 20 KJV

1God commandeth, 7and the children of Israel appoint the six cities of refuge.
1 The 1Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying,
2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 1Appoint 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 1at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall atake 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, 1until 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 aappointed 1Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and 2Shechem in 3mount Ephraim, and 4Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, 1they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and 2Ramoth 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 1the 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.
Joshua 20