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And they [a]set apart Kedesh in [b]Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah. And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the [c]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. These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person [d]unwittingly might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 20:7 Hebrew sanctified.
  2. Joshua 20:7 Hebrew Galil.
  3. Joshua 20:8 Or, table-land
  4. Joshua 20:9 Or, through error