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Numbers 35:15

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These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.

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The surrounding passage

  1. Numbers 35:13

    And of these cities which ye shall give six cities shall ye have for refuge.

  2. Numbers 35:14

    Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.

  3. Numbers 35:16

    And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

  4. Numbers 35:17

    And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.