◄ Joshua 20:3 ►
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Good News Translation
If any of you accidentally kills someone, you can go there and escape the one who is looking for revenge.

New Revised Standard Version
so that anyone who kills a person without intent or by mistake may flee there; they shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

New American Bible
to which anyone guilty of inadvertent and unintentional homicide may flee for asylum 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Context
Six Cities of Refuge
…2Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses: 3That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them, and may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood.4And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that city, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him, and give him a place to dwell in.…
Cross References
Leviticus 4:2
Say to the children of Israel: The soul that sinneth through ignorance, and doth any thing concerning any of the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded not to be done:

Numbers 35:12
And when the fugitive shall be in them, the kinsman of him that is slain may not have power to kill him, until he stand before the multitude, and his cause be judged.

Joshua 20:2
Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:

Joshua 20:4
And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that city, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him, and give him a place to dwell in.

Joshua 20:2
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