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"Now these are the cities you shall give to the Levites: the six cities of asylum which you must establish as places where a homicide can take refuge, and in addition forty-two other cities-- (Numbers 35, 6)
select for yourselves cities to serve as cities of asylum, where a homicide who has killed someone unintentionally may take refuge. (Numbers 35, 11)
These cities shall serve you as places of asylum from the avenger of blood, so that a homicide shall not be put to death unless he is first tried before the community. (Numbers 35, 12)
Six cities of asylum shall you assign: (Numbers 35, 13)
These six cities of asylum shall serve not only the Israelites but all the resident or transient aliens among them, so that anyone who has killed another unintentionally may take refuge there. (Numbers 35, 15)
shall free the homicide from the avenger of blood and shall remand him to the city of asylum where he took refuge; and he shall stay there until the death of the high priest who has been anointed with sacred oil. (Numbers 35, 25)
If the homicide of his own accord leaves the bounds of the city of asylum where he has taken refuge, (Numbers 35, 26)
the homicide was bound to stay in his city of asylum until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the homicide return to his own district. (Numbers 35, 28)
Nor shall you accept indemnity to allow a refugee to leave his city of asylum and again dwell elsewhere in the land before the death of the high priest. (Numbers 35, 32)
to which one guilty of accidental and unintended homicide may flee for asylum from the avenger of blood. (Joshua 20, 3)
Thus to the descendants of Aaron the priest were given the city of asylum for homicides at Hebron, with its pasture lands; also, Libnah with its pasture lands, (Joshua 21, 13)
They were assigned, with its pasture lands, the city of asylum for homicides at Shechem in the mountain region of Ephraim; also Gezer with its pasture lands, (Joshua 21, 21)