Joshua 20:9

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

These cities were ordained to all the sons of Israel, and to the comelings that dwell among them, that he that killed unwittingly a man, should flee to those cities; and he should not die in the hand of the neighbour, coveting to avenge the blood shed out, till he stood before the people, to declare his cause.

Cross References

Numbers 35:13

Forsooth of those cities that be separated to the helps of fugitives,

Numbers 35:15

as well to the sons of Israel as to comelings, and pilgrims; that he flee to those cities, that shedded blood not willfully.

Joshua 20:4

And he shall stand before the gates of the city, and he shall speak to the elder men of that city those things that shall prove him innocent; and so they shall receive him, and they shall give to him a place to dwell in.

Joshua 20:6

And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand before the doom, and yield, or show, the cause of his deed. And he that killed a man, dwell in that city, till the great priest die, which is in that time; then the manslayer shall turn again, and he shall enter into his city, and house, from which he fled.

Joshua 20:8

And beyond Jordan, against the east coast of Jericho, they ordained Bezer, that is set in the field wilderness of the lineage of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, of the lineage of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, of the lineage of Manasseh.