9. if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.
10. This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
11. But if any man hates his neighbour, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
12. then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13. Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.