Deuteronomy 19:2-4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² you are to set apart three cities for yourselves within the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.^{(A) 3} You are to determine the distances^[a] and divide the land the Lord your God is granting you as an inheritance into three regions, so that anyone who commits manslaughter can flee to these cities.^[b]

⁴ ‘Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbour accidentally without previously hating him: