Joshua 20:3

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them: and may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood.

Cross References

Leviticus 4:2

Say to the children of Israel: The soul that sinneth through ignorance, and doth any thing concerning any of the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded not to be done:

Numbers 35:12

And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.

Joshua 20:2

Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses.

Joshua 20:4

And when he shall flee to one of these cities, he shall stand before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that city such things as prove him innocent. And so shall they receive him, and give him a place to dwell in.

Numbers 35:19

The kinsman of him that was slain shall kill the murderer: as soon as he apprehendeth him, he shall kill him.

Numbers 35:22

But if by chance medley, and without hatred,

2 Samuel 14:11

And she said: Let the king remember the Lord his God, that the next of kin be not multiplied to take revenge, and that they may not kill my son. And he said: As the Lord liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

Hebrews 6:18

That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.