Joshua 20:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

that the manslayer who kills any person without intent or unwittingly may flee there; they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:11

Then she said, “Pray let the king invoke the Lord your God, that the avenger of blood slay no more, and my son be not destroyed.” He said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

Leviticus 4:2

“Say to the people of Israel, If any one sins unwittingly in any of the things which the Lord has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,

Numbers 35:12

The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

Numbers 35:22

“But if he stabbed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him without lying in wait,

Hebrews 6:18

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God should prove false, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us.

Joshua 20:2

“Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,

Joshua 20:4

He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and explain his case to the elders of that city; then they shall take him into the city, and give him a place, and he shall remain with them.