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"Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possessioncities to live in; and you shall give to the Levitespasturelandsaround the cities.
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"You shall also measureoutside* 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, with the city in the center. This shall becometheirs as pasturelands for the cities.
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"The citieswhich you shall give to the Levites shall be the sixcities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall giveforty-two*cities.
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"As for the citieswhich you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall takemore from the larger and you shall takeless from the smaller; each shall givesome of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his possessionwhich he inherits."
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'Thesesixcities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien and for the sojourneramong them; that anyone who kills a personunintentionally may fleethere.
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'If he struck him down with a stone in the hand, by which he will die, and as a result he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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'Or if he struck him with a woodenobject in the hand, by which he might die, and as a result he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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or if he struck him down with his hand in enmity, and as a result he died, the one who struck him shall surely be put to death, he is a murderer; the bloodavenger shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
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'The congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the bloodavenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the highpriestwho was anointed with the holyoil.
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because he should have remained in his city of refugeuntil the death of the highpriest. But after the death of the highpriest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.
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'If anyonekills a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the evidence of witnesses, but noperson shall be put to death on the testimony of onewitness.
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'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for bloodpollutes the land and noexpiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except* by the blood of him who shed it.