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And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
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then ye shall appoint for yourselves cities: cities of refuge shall they be for you; that a manslayer may flee thither, who without intent smiteth a person mortally.
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And ye shall have these cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he have stood before the assembly in judgment.
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And the cities that ye shall give shall be six cities of refuge for you.
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Three cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
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For the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them shall these six cities be a refuge, that one who smiteth a person mortally without intent may flee thither.
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And if he have smitten him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.
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And if he have smitten him with a stone from the hand, wherewith one may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.
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Or if he have smitten him with an instrument of wood, in the hand, wherewith one may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death;
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the avenger of blood, he shall put the murderer to death; when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.