Speak to the sons of Israel! saying, Appoint to you the cities of the places of refuge! which I spoke to you through Moses,
for a place of refuge to the manslayer, to the one striking a life unintentionally without forethought. And shall be a place of refuge, and shall not by the one acting as next of kin
And he shall flee to one of these cities, and shall stay at the door of the gate of his city, and shall speak in the ears of the elders of that city his words. And shall return to them, and they shall appoint to him a place, and he shall dwell with them.
And when should pursue after him, that they shall not consign the one manslaying into his hand, for not knowing he struck his neighbor, and was not him from yesterday, and
And he shall dwell in that city, until he should stand in front of the congregation for judgment, until should die who shall be in those days. Then shall return and shall come unto his city, and to his house, even to the city from where he fled from there.
And he separated Kadesh in Galilee, in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and the city Arba (this is Hebron) in the mountain of Judah.
And on the other side of the Jordan, from he gave Bezer in the wilderness on the plain of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in the Bashan area of the tribe of Manasseh.
These cities selected to all sons of Israel, and to the foreigner, to the one lying near among them, to take refuge there, to any one hitting that he should not die by of the one acting as next of kin until whenever he should be placed before the congregation for judgment.