7. for this reason I command you: Set apart three cities.
8. But if the Lord, your God, enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors, and gives you all the land he promised your ancestors he would give,
9. because you carefully observe this whole commandment which I give you today, loving the Lord, your God, and ever walking in his ways, then add three more cities to these three.
10. Thus, in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage, innocent blood will not be shed and you will not become guilty of bloodshed.
11. However, if someone, hating a neighbor, lies in wait, attacks, and strikes the neighbor dead, and then flees to one of these cities,
12. the elders of the killer’s own city shall send and have the killer taken from there, to be handed over to the avenger of blood and slain.
13. Do not show pity, but purge from Israel the innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.