Deuteronomy 19:7
Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
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- Deut 19:1-44 verses90%
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.
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.
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.
- Deut 19:8-147 verses82%
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 verses79%
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.
- 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.
- Josh 20:1-44 verses75%
1 Israel Designates Cities of Refuge The LORD instructed Joshua:
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.
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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.
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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.
- Deut 20:15-173 verses73%
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.
16 Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.
17 Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you,
- Num 35:6-72 verses73%
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.
7 “So the total of the towns you will give the Levites is forty-eight. You must give these together with their grazing lands.
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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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7 So they selected Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba(that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
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3 So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the LORD had instructed.
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11 So keep the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that I today am commanding you to do.
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9 The Cities of Refuge Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
- Num 35:1-22 verses69%
1 The Levitical Cities Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the rift valley plains of Moab along the Jordan near Jericho. He said:
2 “Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.
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32 from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee(a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter), Hammoth Dor, and Kartan, along with the grazing areas of each– a total of three cities.
- Deut 17:7-82 verses69%
7 The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
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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10 Whenever your countrymen who live in the cities bring a case before you(whether it involves a violent crime or other matters related to the law, commandments, rules, and regulations), warn them that they must not sin against the LORD. If you fail to do so, God will be angry with you and your colleagues, but if you obey, you will be free of guilt.
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12 Punishment of Community Idolatry Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you as a place to live, that
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14 for you may do so only in the place the LORD chooses in one of your tribal areas– there you may do everything I am commanding you.
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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,
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10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the LORD chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.
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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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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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19 Purification After Battle“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
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24 then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.
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19 But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.