World English Bible
Joshua 20:3
“that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.”
Verse in context — Joshua 20
Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.
If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before.
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Israel conquers and settles the Promised Land under Joshua’s leadership.
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