Deuteronomy 19:2-4

Revised Geneva Translation

² “you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the LORD your God gives you to possess.

³ “You shall prepare the way for yourself and divide the coasts of the land which the LORD your God gives you to inherit into three parts, so that every manslayer may flee there.

⁴ “This also is the cause for which the manslayer shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor ignorantly and did not hate him in time past —