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Cities of Refuge Are Established

20 And Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, “Speak to the Israelites,[a] saying, ‘Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through the hand of Moses. Anyone who kills a person by accident or unintentionally[b] may flee there; they will be for yourselves a refuge from the avenger of blood.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 20:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Joshua 20:3 Or “by not knowing”