Joshua 20:1-6
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[1] Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, [2] Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses, [3] that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. [4] He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. [5] If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before. [6] He shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from whence he fled.
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Joshua 20:1-6 mentions Bashan, Galilee, Gilead, Golan, Hebron, Jericho, Jordan, Kedesh, Ramoth and Shechem.
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