5 aThen if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not deliver the slayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, but did not hate him beforehand.
6 And he shall dwell in that city auntil he stands before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then the slayer may return and come to his own city and his own house, to the city from which he fled.’ ”
7 So they appointed aKedesh in Galilee, in the mountains of Naphtali, bShechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and cKirjath Arba (which is Hebron) in dthe mountains of Judah.
8 And on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward, they assigned aBezer in the wilderness on the plain, from the tribe of Reuben, bRamoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and cGolan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.
9 aThese were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger who1 dwelt among them, that whoever killed a person accidentally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood buntil he stood before the congregation.
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