Deuteronomy 4:40-42

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁴⁰ Therefore you shall keep His statutes and His commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord your God gives you forever.

⁴¹ Then Moses set apart three cities [of refuge] beyond the Jordan to the east,

⁴² That the manslayer might flee there, who slew his neighbor unintentionally and had not previously been at enmity with him, that fleeing to one of these cities he might save his life: