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Refuge (CITIES OF in Jewish law)

CITIES OF, in Jewish law and history, six Levitical cities divinely appointed as places of refuge to one who had committed manslaughter, and was pursued by the "Revenger" or "Avenger" of Blood. Three (Kedesh Naphtali, Schechem, and Hebron) were W. of the Jordan, and three (Bezer in Reuben, Ramoth Gilead in Gad, and Golan in the half-tribe of Manasseh, were E. of that river.

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