Numbers 35:12
You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
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Numbers 35:13
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.

Deuteronomy 19:4
Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:

Joshua 20:2
"Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

Joshua 20:3
so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:5
Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not deliver the manslayer into his hands, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

Joshua 20:6
He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the manslayer may return to his own home in the city from which he fled."

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from the avenger

Numbers 35:19, 25-27
The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him. . . .

Deuteronomy 19:6
Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him since the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.

Joshua 20:3-6, 9
so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood. . . .

2 Samuel 14:7
Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, 'Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!' So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband's name or posterity on the earth."

until he stand

Numbers 35:24
then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

Deuteronomy 19:11, 12
If, however, a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait, attacks him and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities, . . .

Joshua 20:4-6
When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the gate of the city, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them. . . .

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