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Joshua 20:3

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20:3Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there;3 these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.

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  1. 3 Heb “so that the one who kills, taking life accidentally without knowledge, may flee there.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

NLTNew Living Translation

Anyone who kills another person accidentally and unintentionally can run to one of these cities; they will be places of refuge from relatives seeking revenge for the person who was killed.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Anyone who kills a person by accident or unintentionally may flee there; they will be for yourselves a refuge from the avenger of blood.

KJV 1900King James Version

That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.