11. then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
12. The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgement.
13. The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
14. You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan. They shall be cities of refuge.
15. For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living amongst them, shall these six cities be for refuge, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
16. “‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
17. If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
18. Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
19. The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.
20. If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,
21. or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.
22. “‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,
23. or with any stone, by which a man may die, not seeing him, and cast it on him so that he died, and he was not his enemy and not seeking his harm,
24. then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
25. The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
26. “‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees,
27. and the avenger of blood finds him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the man slayer, he shall not be guilty of blood,
28. because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest, the man slayer shall return into the land of his possession.