Deuteronomy 4:41-49 ▼

41 Then Moses set apart three cities in the region east of the Jordan,

42 to which a homicide might flee who killed a neighbor unintentionally, where there had been no hatred previously, so that the killer might flee to one of these cities and live:

43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the region of the plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites. A. The Lord’s Covenant with Israel

44 This is the law which Moses set before the Israelites.

45 These are the decrees, and the statutes and ordinances which Moses proclaimed to the Israelites after they came out of Egypt,

46 beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated after they came out of Egypt.

47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og, king of Bashan, as well—the land of these two kings of the Amorites in the region beyond the Jordan to the east:

48 from Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon to Mount Sion (that is, Hermon)

49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan to the east, as far as the Arabah Sea under the slopes of Pisgah.