10 “Speak to Bnei-Yisrael saying: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
11 You are to select cities which will be cities of refuge, to which one might flee if he has killed someone by accident.
12 They are to be cities for refuge from the avenger, so the manslayer may not die before standing trial before the assembly.
13 The six cities you designate are to be your cities of refuge.
14 Designate three cities on this side of the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
15 “These six cities of refuge are to be for Bnei-Yisrael as well as for the outsider and the visitor in their midst, for anyone killing a person by accident.
16 Now if the manslayer strikes someone with an iron object so that he dies, he is a murderer and the murderer must die.