40. Therefore, you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I command you this day, so that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and so that you may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, forever.
41. Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan, toward the east,
42. that the manslayer might flee there, that is, anyone who killed his neighbor unintentionally without hating him in time past could flee to one of these cities and live:
43. Bezer in the wilderness in the plateau of the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites.
44. This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
45. These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt,
46. on this side of the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck down, after they had come out of Egypt.
47. They possessed his land, and the land of Og, king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were across the Jordan toward the east,
48. from Aroer, which is by the edge of the River Arnon, even as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon),