Chapter 20 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
They shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may
dwell among them.
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the
slayer up into his hand, because he smote his neighbor unwittingly, and hated him
not before time.
And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for
judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days.
Then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house,
unto the city from whence he fled.
And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount
Ephraim, and Kirjath Arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
And on the other side, Jordan, by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer
in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth and Gilead
out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the
stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at
unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood,
until he stood before the congregation.