Joshua 20:3
So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.
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- Num 35:11-166 verses92%
11Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.
12In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.
13Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;
14Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.
15For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.
16But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.
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9These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.
- Deut 4:42-432 verses86%
42To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:
43The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.
- Josh 20:4-63 verses85%
4And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.
5And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.
6And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.
- Deut 19:2-76 verses84%
2You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.
3You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.
4This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;
5For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:
6For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.
7And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.
- Num 35:19-3214 verses82%
19He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.
20If in his hate he put a sword through him, or waiting secretly for him sent a spear or stone at him, causing his death;
21Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.
22But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,
23Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil:
24Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:
25And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.
26But if ever he goes outside the walls of the safe town where he had gone in flight,
27And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:
28Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.
29These rules are to be your guide in judging through all your generations wherever you may be living.
30Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.
31Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.
32And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest.
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2Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,
- Exod 21:12-143 verses77%
12He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.
13But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.
14But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.
- Deut 19:10-134 verses77%
10So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.
11But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;
12The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.
13Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.
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6And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.
- Deut 21:1-33 verses73%
1If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:
2Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;
3And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;
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17One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.
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21And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;
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13And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;
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32And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.
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19Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.
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29The law in connection with wrong done unconsciously is to be the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from another country who is living among them.