Joshua 20:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly and unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ that the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ That the slayer who kills anyone accidentally and unintentionally may flee there; and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. [Num. 35:10ff.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly and unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

Common English Bible

³ Anyone who kills by striking down someone unintentionally or by mistake may flee there. These places will be a refuge for you from any member of the victim’s family seeking revenge.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ so that anyone who will have struck down a life unintentionally may flee to them. And so, he may be able to escape from the wrath of a close relative, who is an avenger of blood.

Joshua 20:3 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 14:11

Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shalt not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.

Leviticus 4:2

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one shall sin unwittingly, in any of the things which the LORD hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them:

Numbers 35:12

And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgement.

Numbers 35:19

The avenger of blood shall himself put the manslayer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

Numbers 35:22

But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him any thing without lying in wait,

Hebrews 6:18

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us;

Joshua 20:2

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:

Joshua 20:4

And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.