Numbers 35:11 References
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athen you shall select for yourselves cities to be your bcities of refuge, that the manslayer who has killed any person cunintentionally may flee there.
a Deuteronomy 19:1-13
Deuteronomy 19
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"aWhen the Lord your God cuts off the nations, whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,
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ayou shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to possess.
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"You shall prepare the roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lord your God will give you as a possession, so that any manslayer may flee there.
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"aNow this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he kills his friend unintentionally, not hating him previously--
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as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies--he may flee to one of these cities and live;
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otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, and take his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.
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"Therefore, I command you, saying, 'You shall set aside three cities for yourself.'
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"If the Lord your God aenlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give your fathers--
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if you carefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, ato love the Lord your God, and to walk in His ways always--bthen you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.
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"So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and abloodguiltiness be on you.
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"But aif there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,
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then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.