REFUGE

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• Exodus 21:13

  but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

• Exodus 21:14

  If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

• Numbers 35:11

  then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

• Numbers 35:12

  The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

• Numbers 35:13

  The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

• Numbers 35:14

  You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.

• Numbers 35:15

  For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

• Numbers 35:16

  “‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

• Numbers 35:17

  If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

• Numbers 35:18

  Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.

• Numbers 35:19

  The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.

• Numbers 35:20

  If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

• Numbers 35:21

  or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.

• Numbers 35:22

  “‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

• Numbers 35:23

  or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

• Numbers 35:24

  then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

• Numbers 35:25

  The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

• Numbers 35:26

  “‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

• Numbers 35:27

  and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

• Numbers 35:28

  because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

• Numbers 35:29

  “‘These things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

• Numbers 35:30

  “‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

• Numbers 35:31

  “‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

• Numbers 35:32

  “‘You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

• Deuteronomy 4:41

  Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

• Deuteronomy 4:42

  that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

• Deuteronomy 4:43

  Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

• Deuteronomy 19:2

  you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 19:3

  You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.

• Deuteronomy 19:4

  This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live. Whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past;

• Deuteronomy 19:5

  as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live.

• Deuteronomy 19:6

  Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.

• Deuteronomy 19:7

  Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.

• Deuteronomy 19:8

  If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;

• Deuteronomy 19:9

  if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three.

• Deuteronomy 19:10

  This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

• Deuteronomy 19:11

  But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

• Deuteronomy 19:12

  then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

• Deuteronomy 19:13

  Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

• Joshua 20:1

  Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

• Joshua 20:2

  “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

• Joshua 20:3

  that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

• Joshua 20:4

  He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

• Joshua 20:5

  If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.

• Joshua 20:6

  He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”

• Joshua 20:7

  They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

• Joshua 20:8

  Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

• Joshua 20:9

  These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation.

• Hebrews 6:18

  that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.