Numbers 35:6
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6 “The towns that you give to the Levites shall include the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit a slayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two towns.(A)
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Joshua 21:13
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13 To the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands,(A)
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Joshua 21:3
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3 So by command of the Lord the Israelites gave to the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their inheritance.
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Psalm 9:9
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9 The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.(A)
Joshua 21:38
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38 Out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the slayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,
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Joshua 21:36
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36 Out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands,(A)
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Joshua 21:32
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32 Out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the slayer, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands—three towns.(A)
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Joshua 21:27
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27 To the Gershonites, one of the families of the Levites, were given out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the slayer, and Beeshterah with its pasturelands—two towns.(A)
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Joshua 21:21
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21 To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the slayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,(A)
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Hebrews 6:18
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18 so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.(A)
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Matthew 11:28
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28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.(A)
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Isaiah 4:6
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6 It will serve as a pavilion, a shade by day from the heat and a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.(A)
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Psalm 142:4-5
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4 Look on my right hand and see:
there is no one who takes notice of me;
no refuge remains to me;
no one cares for me.(A)
5 I cry to you, O Lord;
I say, “You are my refuge,
my portion in the land of the living.”(B)
Psalm 62:7-8
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7 On God rests my deliverance and my honor;
my mighty rock, my refuge is in God.(A)
8 Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us. Selah(B)
Joshua 20:2-9
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2 “Say to the Israelites: Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,(A) 3 so that anyone who kills a person without intent or by mistake may flee there; they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood. 4 The slayer shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain the case to the elders of that city; then the fugitive shall be taken into the city and given a place and shall remain with them.(B) 5 And if the avenger of blood is in pursuit, they shall not give up the slayer because the neighbor was killed by mistake, there having been no enmity between them before.(C) 6 The slayer shall remain in that city until there is a trial before the congregation, until the death of the one who is high priest at the time; then the slayer may return home, to the town in which the deed was done.”(D)
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.(E) 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.(F) 9 These were the cities designated for all the Israelites and for the aliens residing among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so as not to die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until there was a trial before the congregation.(G)
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Deuteronomy 4:41-43
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Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan
41 Then Moses set apart on the east side of the Jordan three cities(A) 42 to which a homicide could flee, someone who unintentionally kills another person, the two not having been at enmity before; the homicide could flee to one of these cities and live: 43 Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.
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Numbers 35:13-14
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13 “The cities that you designate shall be six cities of refuge for you: 14 you shall designate three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.
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