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Then the manslayer shall return and come to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So they <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>set apart Kedesh in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plain from the tribe of Reuben and Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the sojourner who sojourns among them, that whoever strikes down any person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">2</span> Lit <i>Set for yourselves</i><br><span class="fnverse">4</span> Lit <i>gather</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Lit <i>sanctified</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Heb <i>Galil</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>set</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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