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Then the slayer may return and come to his own city and his own house, to the city from which he fled.’ ”</span></p> <p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So they appointed Kedesh in Galilee, in the mountains of Naphtali, Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and Kirjath Arba (which <i>is</i> Hebron) in the mountains of Judah. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness on the plain, from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh. </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger who <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>dwelt among them, that whoever killed a person accidentally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood before the congregation.</span></p> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-6375a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joshua 20:2">Joshua 20:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Designate</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6377b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joshua 20:4">Joshua 20:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>states</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-6382c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Joshua 20:9">Joshua 20:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>As a resident alien</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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