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These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Joshua.20.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Joshua.20.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before the elders of that city, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Joshua.20.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Joshua.20.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not hand the one who committed manslaughter over to him, for he killed his neighbor accidentally and did not hate him beforehand. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Joshua.20.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Joshua.20.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to his own city from which he fled.”</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Joshua.20.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So they designated Kedesh in the hill country of Naphtali in Galilee,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Joshua.20.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Joshua.20.7.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Joshua.20.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Across the Jordan east of Jericho, they selected Bezer on the wilderness plateau from Reuben’s tribe, Ramoth in Gilead from Gad’s tribe, and Golan in Bashan from Manasseh’s tribe.</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Joshua.20.9" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and the aliens residing among them,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Joshua.20.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the assembly.</p><br /><section id="footnotes-Joshua.20" class="fnSection"><br /><section id="cross-references-Joshua.20" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Joshua.20.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Joshua.20.2">20:2</a></span> Nm 35:6–34; Dt 4:41–43; 19:1–13</aside><aside id="xrf.Joshua.20.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Joshua.20.3">20:3</a></span> Nm 5:5–8; Dt 19:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Joshua.20.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Joshua.20.4">20:4</a></span> Ru 4:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Joshua.20.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Joshua.20.6">20:6</a></span> Nm 35:12; Dt 21:1–9</aside><aside id="xrf.Joshua.20.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Joshua.20.7">20:7</a></span> 1Ch 6:76</aside><aside id="xrf.Joshua.20.7.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Joshua.20.7">20:7</a></span> Jos 21:11; Lk 1:39</aside><aside id="xrf.Joshua.20.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Joshua.20.9">20:9</a></span> Nm 35:15</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Joshua.20" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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