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And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, they will not hand over the killer into his hand, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally, and he did not hate him previously.[a] The killer will stay in that city until he stands before the congregation for the trial, until the death of the one who is the high priest in those days. Then the killer will return[b] to his city and to his house, to the city from which he fled.’”

So they set apart[c] Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba[d] (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 20:5 Literally “he did not hate him since yesterday and the day before that”
  2. Joshua 20:6 Literally “the killer will return and go”
  3. Joshua 20:7 Or “consecrated”
  4. Joshua 20:7 Or “the city of Arba”