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Exodus 21:13
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
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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 take hold of the hope set before us.
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Deuteronomy 4:41-43
Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
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Numbers 35:10-15
“ Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them,‘ When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
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Joshua 20:2-7
“ Speak to the children of Israel, saying,‘ Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.If the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver up the man slayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him before.He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba( also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.