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'Now 1if the avenger of bloodpursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighborwithoutpremeditation and did not hate him beforehand*.
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'He shall dwell in that city2until he standsbefore the congregation for judgment, until the death of the one who is highpriest in thosedays. Then the manslayer shall return* to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.' "
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.