Joshua 20:3
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Accidentally Avenger Blood Design Error Ignorantly Intent Killeth Kills Life Manslayer Man-Slayer Mortally Places Premeditation Protection Refuge Right Safe Slayer Smiteth Smiting Thither Unawares Unintentionally Unwittingly
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Accidentally Avenger Blood Design Error Ignorantly Intent Killeth Kills Life Manslayer Man-Slayer Mortally Places Premeditation Protection Refuge Right Safe Slayer Smiteth Smiting Thither Unawares Unintentionally Unwittingly
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English Standard Version
that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

New American Standard Bible
that the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

International Standard Version
so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally and without premeditation may run there and be protected from closely related avengers.

NET Bible
Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there; these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Choose them so that anyone who unintentionally kills someone may run to them. They will be a place of refuge from any relative who can avenge the death.

King James 2000 Bible
That the slayer that kills any person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

American King James Version
That the slayer that kills any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them: and may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood:

Darby Bible Translation
that the slayer who unwittingly without intent smiteth any one mortally may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and ignorantly, may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

World English Bible
that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

Young's Literal Translation
for the fleeing thither of a man-slayer smiting life inadvertently, without knowledge; and they have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer of blood.
Lexicon
That the slayer
ratsach  (raw-tsakh')
to dash in pieces, i.e. kill (a human being), especially to murder -- put to death, kill, (man-)slay(-er), murder(-er).
that killeth
nakah  (naw-kaw')
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
any person
nephesh  (neh'-fesh)
a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
unawares
shgagah  (sheg-aw-gaw')
a mistake or inadvertent transgression -- error, ignorance, at unawares; unwittingly.
and unwittingly
da`ath  (dah'-ath)
knowledge -- cunning, (ig-)norantly, know(-ledge), (un-)awares (wittingly).
may flee
nuwc  (noos)
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
thither and they shall be your refuge
miqlat  (mik-lawt')
an asylum (as a receptacle) -- refuge.
from the avenger
ga'al  (gaw-al')
to redeem (according to the Oriental law of kinship), i.e. to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.);
of blood
dam  (dawm)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
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