1. When the Lord thy God has cut off the Gentiles whose land the Lord thy God gives thee, and thou hast inherited them and dost dwell in their cities and in their houses,
2. thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.
3. Thou shalt prepare thee a way and divide the borders of thy land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, into three parts, so that every manslayer may flee there.
4. And this is the case of the manslayer who is to flee there, that he may live: whoever kills his neighbour by mistake, whom he hated not in time past;