41 Then Moses set aside three cities on the eastern side of the Jordan River
42 so that anyone who killed someone accidentally and without prior hatred could flee to one of these cities and be safe:
43 Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
44 Now this is the Instruction that Moses set before the Israelites.
45 These are the laws and the regulations and the case laws that Moses spoke to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
46 This took place across the Jordan River, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated when they came out of Egypt.
47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og, Bashan’s king—the two Amorite kings across the Jordan River to the east—