Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Joshua
Chapter 20
1. THE LORD also spake unto
Joshua, saying,
2. Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities
of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
3. That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may
flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
4. And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at
the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the
ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto
them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
5. And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not
deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour
unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
6. And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that
shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his
own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
7. And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naph-ta-li, and She-chem
in mount E-phra-im, and Kir-jath-ar-ba, which is Hebron, in the mountain
of Judah.
8. And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer
in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth
in Gil-e-ad out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Ba-shan out of the
tribe of Ma-nas-seh.
9. These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and
for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any
person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the
avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Mar.
25 Daily reading schedule.. go to chapter 21
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