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Joshua 20:3

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that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

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Joshua 20:3 in other translations

that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly and unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:3 · American Standard Version

Joshua 20:3 in context

  1. 1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
  2. 2“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
  3. 3that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
  4. 4He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.
  5. 5If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.