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When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children
of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
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According to the word of
the L
ORD
they gave him the city which he asked,
even
Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he
built the city, and dwelt therein.
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These
are
the inheritances which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua
the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an
inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the L
ORD
, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So
they made an end of dividing the country.
CHAPTER 20
The L
ORD
also spake unto Joshua, saying,
2
Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for
you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
3
That the slayer that killeth
any
person unawares
and
unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the
avenger of blood.
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And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering
of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall
take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
5
And if the
avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because
he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
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And he shall dwell in that city,
until he stand before the congregation for judgment,
and
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,
unto the city from whence he fled.
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And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim,
and Kirjath-arba, which
is
Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
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And on the other side Jordan by
Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben,
and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
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These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth
among them, that whosoever killeth
any
person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the
hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
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Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the
son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
2
And they spake
unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The L
ORD
commanded by the hand of Moses to
give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
3
And the children of Israel gave
unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the L
ORD
, these cities and their
suburbs.
4
And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the
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