English Bible Presentation Sharing - Joshua Book, chapter 20, verse 52 in Akjv Version

Joshua 20 : 1 (AKJV)

The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying,

Joshua 20 : 2 (AKJV)

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:

Joshua 20 : 3 (AKJV)

That the slayer that kills any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Joshua 20 : 4 (AKJV)

And when he that does flee to one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

Joshua 20 : 5 (AKJV)

And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbor unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

Joshua 20 : 6 (AKJV)

And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from from where he fled.

Joshua 20 : 7 (AKJV)

And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

Joshua 20 : 8 (AKJV)

And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness on 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.

Joshua 20 : 9 (AKJV)

These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojournes among them, that whoever kills any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.