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Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possessioncities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levitessuburbs for the cities round about them.
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And ye shall measure from without the city on the eastside two thousandcubits, and on the southside two thousandcubits, and on the westside two thousandcubits, and on the northside two thousandcubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
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And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be sixcities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall addforty and twocities.
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And the cities which ye shall give shall be of the possession of the children of Israel: from them that have many ye shall give many; but from them that have few ye shall give few: every one shall give of his cities unto the Levitesaccording to his inheritance which he inheriteth.
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These sixcities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourneramong them: that every one that killeth any personunawares may flee thither.
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Or in enmitysmite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
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And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the highpriest, which was anointed with the holyoil.
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And the revenger of bloodfind him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of bloodkill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
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Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the highpriest: but after the death of the highpriest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
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Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but onewitness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
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And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
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So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.