Bible Cross References
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Exodus 21:13
However, if he did not lie in wait, but God allowed the meeting into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
Exodus 21:14
But if a man comes presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him by deceit, you shall take him even from My altar, that he may die.
Numbers 35:6
And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites you shall appoint six cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. And to these you shall add forty-two cities.
Numbers 35:11-14
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then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any soul accidentally may flee there.
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They shall be cities of refuge for you from the kinsman avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.
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And out of the cities which you give, you shall have six cities of refuge.
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You shall appoint three cities on this side of the Jordan, and three cities you shall appoint in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.
Deuteronomy 4:41-43
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Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun,
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that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
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Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
Deuteronomy 19:2-13
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you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess.
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You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which Jehovah your God is giving you to inherit, that any manslayer may flee there.
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And this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever strikes his neighbor unintentionally, not hating him in time past;
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as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head has slipped from the handle and struck his neighbor so that he has died; he shall flee to one of these cities and live;
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lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer and overtake him because the way is long, and kill him while his emotions are hot, though he is not deserving of death, since he had not hated his neighbor in time past.
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Therefore I am commanding you, saying, You shall separate three cities for yourself.
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Now if Jehovah your God enlarges your territory, as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you the land which He has promised to give to your fathers,
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and if you keep all these commandments to do them, which I am commanding you today, to love Jehovah your God and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,
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that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land which Jehovah your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus there be blood upon you.
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But if anyone, while hating his neighbor, has laid in wait for him, risen against him and struck his soul so that he has died, and he has fled to one of these cities,
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then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
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Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:33
Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
Romans 8:34
Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, but rather is also raised, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
Hebrews 6:18
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.
Hebrews 6:19
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters in within the veil,
your refuge
Numbers 35:15-24
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These six cities shall be for refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills a soul accidentally may flee there.
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But if he strikes him with an implement of iron, so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be executed to death.
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And if he strikes him with a stone in the hand, by which one could die, and he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be executed to death.
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Or if he strikes him with a wooden implement in the hand, by which one could die, and he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall be executed to death.
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The kinsman avenger of blood himself shall put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death.
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If he pushes him out of hatred, or while lying in wait has thrown something at him, so that he dies,
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or in enmity he has struck him with his hand so that he dies, the one who struck him shall be executed to death. He is a murderer. The kinsman avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
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However, if he has pushed him suddenly without enmity, or has thrown anything at him without lying in wait,
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or a stone, by which a man could die, which falls on him without seeing him, so that he dies, while he was not his enemy or seeking his harm;
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then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the kinsman avenger of blood according to these judgments.