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Bible Verses About Cities of Refuge

9 verses · 12 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  2. And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  3. Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  4. The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

  5. And if he thrust him of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,

  6. or in enmity smote him with his hand, so that he died; he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meeteth him.

  7. Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;

  8. that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

  9. namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.