20:3 That the slayer that killeth [any] person a unawares
[and] unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your
refuge from the avenger of blood.
(a) At unawares and bearing him no grudge.
20:5 And if the b avenger of blood pursue after him, then they
shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he
smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not
beforetime.
(b) That is, the nearest kinsman of him that is slain.
20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
congregation for c judgment, [and] until the death of the
high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the
slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own
house, unto the city from whence he fled.
(c) Till his cause was proved.
20:8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they
assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the
tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of
Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the d tribe of Manasseh.
(d) Out of the half tribe of Manasseh beyond the Jordan.
20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of
Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them,
that whosoever killeth [any] person at unawares might flee
thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood,
until he stood before the e congregation.
