Joshua 20:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.”
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“so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.”
King James Version · Public Domain“that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly and unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for the fleeing thither of a man-slayer smiting life inadvertently, without knowledge; and they have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer of blood.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 20:3 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 35:12You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
- Numbers 35:19The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.
- Numbers 35:22But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
- 2 Samuel 14:11“Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”
- Hebrews 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
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