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Joshua 20:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Joshua 20:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 20
The Cities of Refuge.[a] 1 The Lord then said to Joshua, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Choose refuge cities for yourselves, just as I told you to do through Moses. 3 This way anyone who kills another accidentally or unintentionally can flee there and take refuge from the relative who seeks blood vengeance.
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- Joshua 20:1 God had prepared the Israelites to function well in their new land through his instructions to Moses many years earlier. The laws that required the establishment of “cities of refuge”—for someone who committed an unintentional murder—are detailed in Num 35:9-28; Deut 19:1-13.
