And if the [a]avenger of blood pursue after him, they shall not deliver the slayer into his hand, because he smote his neighbor ignorantly, neither hated he him beforetime:

But he shall dwell in that city until he stand before the Congregation in [b]judgment, (A)or until the death of the high Priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, even unto the city from whence he fled.

¶ Then they appointed Kedesh in [c]Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath Arba, (which is Hebron) in the mountain of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 20:5 That is, the nearest kinsman of him that is slain.
  2. Joshua 20:6 Till his cause were proved.
  3. Joshua 20:7 Or, Galilee.

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