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,