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Joshua 20:1 The Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying,
2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of
refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
3 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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Unwittingly = unknowingly
4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the
entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the
ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto
them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not
deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour
unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that
shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his
own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
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The cities of refuge, being cities of the
priests, bore the sin of the manslayer.
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What the high priest was to the Levites, the
Levites were to the nation.
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On the Day of Atonement, therefore, all the sins
of the nation came into his hand.
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On his death he was freed from the Law and those
whom he represented were freed also.
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Roman 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
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Another way of putting this would be, once a man
is dead, he is absolved from the claims of sin.
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Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified
by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much
more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his
life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have
now received the atonement.
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Hebrews 7:23 And they truly were many priests,
because they were not suffered to continue by
reason of death:
24 But this man, because he continueth ever,
hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the
uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he
ever liveth to make intercession for them.
7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in
mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of
Judah.
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Appointed = Separated, and thus sanctified
8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer
in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth
in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe
of Manasseh.
9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and
for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any
person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the
avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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