1   &rhand; The Lorde also spake vnto Iosuah, saying:

2   Speake to the children of Israel, and saye: ^note Appoint out fr&obar; am&obar;g you cities of refuge, wherof I spake vnto you by the hande of Moyses:

3   That the slear that kylleth any person vnwares and vnwyttyngly, may flee thyther: And those cities shall be your refuge from the ^note auenger of blood.

4   And he that doth flee vnto one of those cities, shall stande at the entryng of the gate of the citie, ∧ shall shewe his cause in the eares of the elders of the citie: And they shall take him into the citie vnto them, and geue hym a place, that he may dwell among them.

5   And if the auenger of blood folow after him, they shall not deliuer the slear into his hand: because he smote his friend ignorauntly, and hated him not before tyme.

6   And he shall dwell in the sayd citie vntyl he stande before the congregation in ^note iudgement, ^note or vntyll the death of the hye priest that shall be in those dayes: for then shall the slear returne, and come vnto his owne citie, and vnto his owne house, and vnto the citie from whence he fled. B   

7   And they sanctified Kedes in Galilee in mount Nephthali, ∧ Sich&ebar; in mount Ephraim, and Kiriatharba (which is Hebron) in the mountayne of Iuda.

8   And on the other syde Iordane ouer against Iericho eastward, they appoynted ^note Bezer in the wildernesse vpon the playne, out of the tribe of Ruben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Basan out of the ^note tribe of Manasses.

9   These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, ∧ for the straunger that soiourned among them, that whosoeuer kylled any person ignora&ubar;tly, the same might flee thyther, ∧ should not dye by the hand of the auenger of blood, vntil he stoode before the ^note congregation.

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