6. “The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
7. All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities together with their pasture lands.
8. Concerning the cities which you shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many you shall take many, and from the few you shall take few. Everyone according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give some of his cities to the Levites.”
9. The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
10. “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
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.