Numbers 35:6

6“The cities that you give to the Levites shall be athe six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

Numbers 35:14-15

14 bYou shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge. 15These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and cfor the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.

Joshua 20:2-9

2Say to the people of Israel, dAppoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses, 3that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood. 4He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand eat the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them. 5And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him in the past. 6And he shall remain in that city funtil he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’”

7So they set apart gKedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and hShechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and iKiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) jin the hill country of Judah. 8And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed kBezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and lRamoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and mGolan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh. 9These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and nfor the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.

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