20:1 Then
the
LORD
said
to
Joshua,
20:2 "Say
to
the
people
of
Israel,
'Appoint
the
cities
of
refuge,
of
which
I
spoke
to
you
through
Moses,
20:3 that
the
manslayer
who
strikes
any
person
without
intent
or
unknowingly
may
flee
there.
They
shall
be
for
you
a
refuge
from
the
avenger
of
blood.
20:4 He
shall
flee
to
one
of
these
cities
and
shall
stand
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
the
city
and
explain
his
case
to
the
elders
of
that
city.
Then
they
shall
take
him
into
the
city
and
give
him
a
place,
and
he
shall
remain
with
them.
20:5 And
if
the
avenger
of
blood
pursues
him,
they
shall
not
give
up
the
manslayer
into
his
hand,
because
he
struck
his
neighbor
unknowingly,
and
did
not
hate
him
in
the
past.
20:6 And
he
shall
remain
in
that
city
until
he
has
stood
before
the
congregation
for
judgment,
until
the
death
of
him
who
is
high
priest
at
the
time.
Then
the
manslayer
may
return
to
his
own
town
and
his
own
home,
to
the
town
from
which
he
fled.'"
20:7 So
they
set
apart
Kedesh
in
Galilee
in
the
hill
country
of
Naphtali,
and
Shechem
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim,
and
Kiriath-arba
(that
is,
Hebron)
in
the
hill
country
of
Judah.
20:8 And
beyond
the
Jordan
east
of
Jericho,
they
appointed
Bezer
in
the
wilderness
on
the
tableland,
from
the
tribe
of
Reuben,
and
Ramoth
in
Gilead,
from
the
tribe
of
Gad,
and
Golan
in
Bashan,
from
the
tribe
of
Manasseh.
20:9 These
were
the
cities
designated
for
all
the
people
of
Israel
and
for
the
stranger
sojourning
among
them,
that
anyone
who
killed
a
person
without
intent
could
flee
there,
so
that
he
might
not
die
by
the
hand
of
the
avenger
of
blood,
till
he
stood
before
the
congregation.