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Joshua 20:5
And 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.

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Joshua 20:6
And 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.

Numbers 35:12
In 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.

Deuteronomy 19:6
For 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.

Numbers 35:19
He 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.

Numbers 35:27
And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

Numbers 35:22
But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,

Numbers 35:24
Then 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:

Numbers 35:25
And 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.

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Exodus 21:13
But 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.

Numbers 35:11
Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

Deuteronomy 4:41
Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east;

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