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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[a] to his city and to his house, to the city from which he fled.’”

So they set apart[b] Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba[c] (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in the Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 20:6 Literally “the killer will return and go”
  2. Joshua 20:7 Or “consecrated”
  3. Joshua 20:7 Or “the city of Arba”