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Numbers 35:13

New American Bible - revised edition

As for the cities you assign, you will have six cities of asylum:

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From the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,

These cities will serve you as places of asylum from the avenger of blood, so that a homicide will not be put to death until tried before the community.

you will designate three cities beyond the Jordan, and you will designate three cities in the land of Canaan. These will be cities of asylum.

Now these are the cities you will give to the Levites: the six cities of asylum which you must establish for the homicide to run to, and in addition forty-two other cities—

These are the designated cities to which any Israelite or alien residing among them who had killed a person unintentionally might flee to escape death at the hand of the avenger of blood, until the killer could appear before the community.




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