That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
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Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
Numbers
LawAnd that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
Leviticus
Law / MosesAnd Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
Genesis
LawFor I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
Romans
Pauline EpistlesAnd at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;
Nehemiah
History / NehemiahHe shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort him.
1 Chronicles
History / EzraThe wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms
PoetryAnd he shall kill the bullock before the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Leviticus
LawWhich was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Hebrews
General EpistlesTherefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
Judges
History / SamuelAnd the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue.
Leviticus
LawBut the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-jearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles
History / EzraI will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Job
Wisdom / JobThe king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Joshua
HistoryThen Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Genesis
LawHe that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
Isaiah
Major Prophets / IsaiahAnd when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
2 Kings
HistoryAnd if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
Luke
GospelsAnd Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
1 Samuel
HistoryAnd Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
1 Samuel
History / SamuelThis thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Psalms
PoetryAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.