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Exodus 21:13
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

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Exodus 21:14
If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Numbers 35:31
“ ‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death. He shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:17
“ ‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.

Numbers 35:33
“ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Deuteronomy 19:11
But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

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Numbers 35:11
then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Deuteronomy 4:41
Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,

Deuteronomy 4:42
that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

Deuteronomy 19:5
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.

Joshua 20:2
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

Numbers 35:22
“ ‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

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