1 “When the Lord your God annihilates the nations whose land He is giving you, so that you drive them out and live in their cities and houses,
2 you are to set apart three cities for yourselves within the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
3 You are to determine the distances and divide the land the Lord your God is granting you as an inheritance into three regions, so that anyone who commits manslaughter can flee to these cities.
4 “Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him: