# Joshua 20

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/joshua/20

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Then Yahweh said to Joshua,
2. “Tell the Israelites, ‘Designate the cities of refuge that I told you about through Moses,
3. so that a killer who strikes and kills a person accidentally, without intending to, may flee there. They will be a refuge for you from the avenger of blood.
4. The killer is to flee to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and state his case to the elders of that city. Then they are to take him into the city with them and give him a place, and he is to live among them.
5. If the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not hand the killer over to him, because he struck his neighbor without intending to and had not hated him before.
6. He is to live in that city until he stands trial before the congregation, until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then the killer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’”
7. So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
8. Beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben; Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad; and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.
9. These were the designated cities for all the Israelites and for the foreigner who lives among them, so that anyone who killed a person accidentally could flee there and not die at the hand of the avenger of blood before he had stood trial before the congregation.

## Nearby chapters

[Joshua 19](https://www.lumin.faith/read/joshua/19.md)
[Joshua 21](https://www.lumin.faith/read/joshua/21.md)

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