Joshua 20

¹The Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 13:1-7Josh 5:14Josh 6:2Josh 7:10

²Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 19:2-13Deut 4:41-43Num 35:11-24Num 35:6Rom 8:1Exod 21:13-14Heb 6:18-19Rom 8:33-34

³That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

⁴And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 38:7Ruth 4:1-2Heb 6:18Job 29:7Job 5:4Prov 31:23Ps 26:9

⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 35:12Num 35:25

⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 35:12Heb 9:26Num 35:24-25

⁷And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath–arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 21:111 Chr 6:76Josh 21:32Luke 1:39Josh 14:15Josh 21:13Josh 21:212 Chr 10:1Gen 33:18-19

⁸And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 6:78Josh 21:36Josh 21:27Josh 21:381 Chr 6:801 Kgs 22:3-41 Kgs 22:6Deut 4:43

⁹These 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 35:15Josh 20:4Josh 20:6