7. Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
8. If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
9. and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.
10. You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
11. However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.
12. The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.