Joshua 20:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:11

Then she said, Let the king keep in mind the Lord your God, so that he who gives punishment for blood may be kept back from further destruction and that no one may send death on my son. And he said, By the living Lord, not a hair of your son's head will come to the earth.

Leviticus 4:2

Say to the children of Israel: These are the offerings of anyone who does wrong through error, doing any of the things which by the Lord's order are not to be done:

Numbers 35:12

In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.

Numbers 35:19

He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

Numbers 35:22

But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

Hebrews 6:18

So that we, who have gone in flight from danger to the hope which has been put before us, may have a strong comfort in two unchanging things, in which it is not possible for God to be false;

Joshua 20:2

Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

Joshua 20:4

And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.