Deuteronomy 19:7

Deuteronomy 19:7
And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.

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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:

Deuteronomy 19:10
So 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.

2 Samuel 14:11
Then she said, Let the king keep in mind the Lord your God, so that he who gives punishment for blood may be kept back from further destruction and that no one may send death on my son. And he said, By the living Lord, not a hair of your son's head will come to the earth.

Job 19:25
But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

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Deuteronomy 19:1
When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;

Deuteronomy 19:2
You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

Deuteronomy 19:3
You 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.

Deuteronomy 31:21
Then when evils and troubles without number have overtaken them, this song will be a witness to them, for the words of it will be clear in the memories of their children: for I see the thoughts which are moving in their hearts even now, before I have taken them into the land of my oath.

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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.

Joshua 20:4
And 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.

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.

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.

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