Cities of Refuge
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Then Moses m set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,
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that n the manslayer might flee there, anyone who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without being at enmity with him in time past; he may flee to one of these cities and save his life:
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o Bezer in the wilderness on the p tableland for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:6
The cities that you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.
Numbers 35:14
You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:4
This is the provision for the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past -
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Cross References
Joshua 20:8
And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 21:36
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasturelands, Jahaz with its pasturelands.
1 Chronicles 6:78
And beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:10
All the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
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