3 That whosoever shall
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kill a person unawares may flee
to them: and may escape the
wrath of the kinsman, who is
the avenger of blood:
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 they shall receive him,
and give him a place to dwell
in.
5 And when the avenger
of blood shall pursue him,
they shall not deliver him into
his hands, because he slew
his neighbour unawares, and
is not proved to have been his
enemy two or three days before.
6 And he shall dwell in
that city, till he stand before
judgment to give an account
of his fact, and till the death
of the high priest, who shall
be at that time: then shall the
manslayer return, and go into
his own city and house from
whence he fled.
7 And they appointed Cedes
in Galilee of mount Nephthali,
and Sichem in mount
Ephraim, and Cariatharbe,
the same is Hebron in the
mountain of Juda.
8 And beyond the Jordan
to the east of Jericho, they
appointed Bosor, which is
upon the plain of the wilderness
of the tribe of Ruben,
and Ramoth in Galaad of the
tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in
Basan of the tribe of Manasses.
9 These cities were appointed
for all the children of
Israel, and for the strangers,
that dwelt among them: that
whosoever had killed a person
unawares might flee to them,
and not die by the hand of the
kinsman, coveting to revenge
the blood that was shed, until
he should stand before the
people to lay open his cause.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
