020:003 that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly [and]
unawares may flee there: and they shall be to you for a refuge
from the avenger of blood.
020:004 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at
the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause
in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall
take him into the city to them, and give him a place,
that he may dwell among them.
020:005 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall
not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck
his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before.
020:006 He shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest
that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return,
and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city
from whence he fled.
020:007 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali,
and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba
(the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
020:008 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer
in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben,
and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan
in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
020:009 These were the appointed cities for all the children
of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them,
that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there,
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood
before the congregation.
021:001 Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites
to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun,
and to the heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of
the children of Israel;
021:002 and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,
saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in,
with the suburbs of it for our livestock.
021:003 The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance,
according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities
with their suburbs.
021:004 The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites:
and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites,
had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of
the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
021:005 The rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families
of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan,
and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
021:006 The children of Gershon had by lot out of the families
of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher,
and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe