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2-3 Make the land into three separate regions. Then choose three special cities, one city in each region.[a] Build good roads to each city so that people can easily travel to them. Then anyone who kills a person can run to one of these cities to be safe.

This is the rule when anyone has killed another person: If it was a mistake, he can run to a safe city. He can do that if he has killed someone that he did not already hate.

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  1. 19:2-3 See Joshua 20:7-9.

then set aside for yourselves three cities in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess. Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities.

This is the rule concerning anyone who kills a person and flees there for safety—anyone who kills a neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought.

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