41 Then Moses set apart three cities [of refuge] beyond the Jordan toward the rising of the sun (eastward),

42 so that someone who committed manslaughter could flee there, [that is, a person] who killed his neighbor unintentionally and without previously having hostility toward him, and that by escaping to one of these cities he might [claim the right of asylum and] save his life:

Deuteronomy 4:41-42, Amplified Bible. Copyright © 2015 by The Lockman Foundation.
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