Joshua
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Joshua, saying,
2Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Give yourselves the cities of refuge of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses,
3so that a killer who strikes a person by mistake, without knowing, may flee there. They shall be a refuge for you from the A close relative who takes up the blood of a person who was killed. of the blood.
4He shall flee to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and speak his words in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall gather him into the city to themselves, give him a place, and he shall live with them.
5If the A close relative who takes up the blood of a person who was killed. of the blood chases after him, they shall not hand the killer over into his hand, because he struck his neighbor without knowing, and he had not been hating him since yesterday and the day before.
6He shall live in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the great priest who is in those days. Then the killer shall return and come to his city and to his house, to the city from which he fled.
7They 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.
8Beyond the Jordan of Jericho, on the east, they gave Bezer in the wilderness, on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Galon in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.
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The written consonants are גלון, Galon. The Masoretic reading is גולן, Golan. The written Galon is printed. Deuteronomy writes Golan in its own line. Joshua’s written spelling is not changed to match it.
9These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel, and for the A person living in a land that is not their own. who sojourns among them, so that anyone who strikes a person by mistake may flee there, and not die by the hand of the A close relative who takes up the blood of a person who was killed. of the blood, until he stands before the congregation.
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Arei ha-muadah are the cities of appointment, the places set for this refuge.