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“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
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so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.
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When they flee to one of these cities, they are to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state their case before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to admit the fugitive into their city and provide a place to live among them.
The contents of this chapter are the renewal of the order to appoint cities of refuge for such that commit manslaughter ignorantly, to flee unto, and have shelter in from the avenger of blood, Jos 20:1-6; and the execution of this order, Jos 20:7-9.