Deuteronomy 4:41-49 ▼

41 Then Moses designated three cities on the east side of the Jordan,

42 where a person who accidentally killed someone could flee, if he killed his neighbor without having enmity toward him in the past. He may flee to one of these cities and live:

43 Bezer in the desert plain for the descendants of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead for the descendants of Gad, and Golan in Bashan for the descendants of Manasseh.

44 This is the Law that Moses reviewed in the presence of the Israelis.

45 These are the instructions, decrees, and ordinances that Moses declared to the Israelis when they came out of Egypt.

46 He did this east of the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and whom Moses and the Israelis defeated after leaving Egypt.

47 So they took possession of his land, as well as the land of King Og of Bashan. Both Amorite kings lived east of the Jordan—

48 from Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon as far as Mount Sirion, which is also called Hermon,

49 and all the Arabah east of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.