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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Joshua 16-20, and I’m calling the episode “Somewhere To Run”. We’ll be reading about_God’s plan for making sure justice was properly carried out_. We’ll do our “On This Day In Church History” segment, and we’ll hear a comment on last Saturday’s episode. Thoughts on Joshua 20 In chapter 20 we read about the cities of refuge, or what I’m calling “Somewhere To Run”. Kind of a callback to the 1965 tune “Nowhere To Run” by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. What a great song. I told you I was old. If you like Motown music, look it up. But I digress. These cities of refuge were places that someone who had unintentionally or accidentally killed a person could flee and be protected from "the avenger of blood". As the commentator Matthew Henry put it, these were people who were guilty by hand, but not of heart.  What is "the avenger of blood"? In Israel at that time, each family had a designated person who had the responsibility to be sure that if someone in