Deuteronomy 19:3
You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the LORD your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 57:14 : 14 He says,“Build it! Build it! Clear a way! Remove all the obstacles out of the way of my people!”
- Isa 62:10 : 10 Come through! Come through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! Build it! Build the roadway! Remove the stones! Lift a signal flag for the nations!
- Heb 12:13 : 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but be healed.
- Isa 35:8 : 8 A thoroughfare will be there– it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it; it is reserved for those authorized to use it– fools will not stray into it.
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- Deut 19:1-22 verses89%
1 Laws Concerning Manslaughter When the LORD your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,
2 you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the LORD your God is giving you as a possession.
- Deut 19:4-1411 verses83%
4 Now this is the law pertaining to one who flees there in order to live, if he has accidentally killed another without hating him at the time of the accident.
5 Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.
6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.
7 Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
8 If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
9 and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today(namely, to love the LORD your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.
10 You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
11 However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.
12 The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.
13 You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
14 Laws Concerning Witnesses You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
- Num 35:11-155 verses77%
11 you must then designate some towns as towns of refuge for you, to which a person who has killed someone unintentionally may flee.
12 And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.
13 These towns that you must give shall be your six towns for refuge.
14 “You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge.
15 These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the resident foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.
- Josh 20:2-65 verses77%
2 “Have the Israelites select the cities of refuge that I told you about through Moses.
3 Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there; these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.
4 The one who committed manslaughter should escape to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and present his case to the leaders of that city. They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there.
5 When the avenger of blood comes after him, they must not hand over to him the one who committed manslaughter, for he accidentally killed his fellow man without premeditation.
6 He must remain in that city until his case is decided by the assembly and the high priest dies. Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.”
- Deut 4:41-433 verses77%
41 The Narrative Concerning Cities of Refuge Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.
42 Anyone who accidentally killed someone without hating him at the time of the accident could flee to one of those cities and be safe.
43 These cities are Bezer, in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.
- Deut 21:1-22 verses76%
1 Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,
2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.
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9 These were the cities of refuge appointed for all the Israelites and for resident foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed someone could escape there and not be executed by the avenger of blood, at least until his case was reviewed by the assembly.
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13 But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
- Num 35:26-294 verses72%
26 But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,
27 and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,
28 because the slayer should have stayed in his town of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the slayer may return to the land of his possessions.
29 So these things must be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations, in all the places where you live.
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20 You must pursue justice alone so that you may live and inherit the land the LORD your God is giving you.
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15 This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.
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21 “This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.
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24 then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.
- Josh 18:4-63 verses71%
4 Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me.
5 Divide it into seven regions. Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and the family of Joseph in its territory in the north.
6 But as for you, map out the land into seven regions and bring it to me. I will draw lots for you here before the LORD our God.
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8 Appeal to a Higher Court If a matter is too difficult for you to judge– bloodshed, legal claim, or assault– matters of controversy in your villages– you must leave there and go up to the place the LORD your God chooses.
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6 Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.
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9 In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the LORD.
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13 The LORD your God will deliver it over to you and you must kill every single male by the sword.
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19 and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.
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18 Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes At that time I instructed you as follows:“The LORD your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites equipped for battle.
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19 The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.
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24 For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
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27 and he said to them,“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has said‘Each man fasten his sword on his side, and go back and forth from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and each one kill his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”