Joshua 20:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Job 29:7

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

Job 5:4

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Psalm 26:9

Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

Proverbs 31:23

Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

Jeremiah 38:7

Now it came to the ears of Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an unsexed servant in the king's house, that they had put Jeremiah into the water-hole; the king at that time being seated in the doorway of Benjamin:

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 20:3

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.