Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inhe
So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of re
This is what the Levite clans of the Gershonites were given: From the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Golan in Ba
And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Hammoth-dor, and
From the tribe of Reuben they were given Bezer, Jahaz,
they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,
The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
And from the tribe of Gad they were given Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim,
My salvation and my honor rest on God, my strong rock; my refuge is in God.
Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
a shelter to give shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and the rain.
The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east