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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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Joshua 20:7-9

THE ISRAELITES APPOINT BY NAME THE CITIES OF REFUGE. (Joshua 20:7-9)

they appointed . . . cities—There were six; three on the west, and three on the east, of Jordan. In the first instance, they were a provision of the criminal law of the Hebrews, necessary in the circumstances of that people (see on Numbers 35:11; Deuteronomy 19:2). At the same time they were designed also typically to point out the sinner's way to Christ (Hebrews 6:18).




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