Wikipedia's article on the biblical cities of refuge, where an accidental killer could claim asylum from blood vengeance, consulted 2026-08-13.
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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points. NotesWikipedia's article on the cities of refuge, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the six named cities of Numbers 35, the Talmud and Maimonides on the high priest's death, the four rabbinic categories of killing, and the scholarly dating of the law to the Priestly Code.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Refuge
Source Typereference
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