These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Joshua 20
Tanakh 9 verses
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And spoke unto , saying:
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- 2 Speak to the children of , saying: Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand of ;
- 3 that the manslayer that killeth any person through error and unawares may flee thither; and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of .
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And he shall flee unto 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 unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
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And if the avenger of pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unawares, and hated him not beforetime.
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And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high that shall be in those days; then may the manslayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.’
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- 7 And they set apart Kedesh in in the hill-country of , and in the hill-country of , and Kiriath-arba—the same is —in the hill-country of .
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And beyond the at eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the table-land out of the tribe of , and Ramoth in out of the tribe of , and Golan in out of the tribe of .
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These were the appointed cities for all the children of , and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person through error might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of , until he stood before the congregation.
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