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Want to know what the Bible says about Cities Of Refuge? Here are 21 Bible verses about Cities Of Refuge from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Exodus 21:13 NIV
However, if it is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they are to flee to a place I will designate.
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Numbers 35:11 NIV
select some towns to be your cities of refuge, to which a person who has killed someone accidentally may flee.
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Joshua 20:3 NIV
so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.
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Deuteronomy 4:41-43 NIV
41 Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan, 42 to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life. 43 The cities were these: Bezer in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
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Joshua 20:7-8 NIV
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 East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan in the tribe of Manasseh.
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Deuteronomy 19:3 NIV
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.
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Isaiah 62:10 NIV
Pass through, pass through the gates!
    Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!
    Remove the stones.
Raise a banner for the nations.
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Joshua 20:4 NIV
When they flee to one of these cities, they are to stand in the entrance of the city gate and state their case before the elders of that city. Then the elders are to admit the fugitive into their city and provide a place to live among them.
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Numbers 35:15 NIV
These six towns will be a place of refuge for Israelites and for foreigners residing among them, so that anyone who has killed another accidentally can flee there.
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Numbers 35:12 NIV
They will be places of refuge from the avenger, so that anyone accused of murder may not die before they stand trial before the assembly.
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Numbers 35:24 NIV
the assembly must judge between the accused and the avenger of blood according to these regulations.
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Numbers 35:26-27 NIV
26 “‘But if the accused ever goes outside the limits of the city of refuge to which they fled 27 and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder.
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Numbers 35:25 NIV
The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
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Numbers 35:28 NIV
The accused must stay in the city of refuge until the death of the high priest; only after the death of the high priest may they return to their own property.
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Exodus 21:14 NIV
But if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is to be taken from my altar and put to death.
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Numbers 35:16-21 NIV
16 “‘If anyone strikes someone a fatal blow with an iron object, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. 17 Or if anyone is holding a stone and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. 18 Or if anyone is holding a wooden object and strikes someone a fatal blow with it, that person is a murderer; the murderer is to be put to death. 19 The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death; when the avenger comes upon the murderer, the avenger shall put the murderer to death. 20 If anyone with malice aforethought shoves another or throws something at them intentionally so that they die 21 or if out of enmity one person hits another with their fist so that the other dies, that person is to be put to death; that person is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when they meet.
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Psalm 91:2 NIV
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”
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Isaiah 25:4 NIV
You have been a refuge for the poor,
    a refuge for the needy in their distress,
a shelter from the storm
    and a shade from the heat.
For the breath of the ruthless
    is like a storm driving against a wall
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Hebrews 6:18 NIV
God did this so that, 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 greatly encouraged.
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Isaiah 35:8 NIV
And a highway will be there;
    it will be called the Way of Holiness;
    it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean will not journey on it;
    wicked fools will not go about on it.
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