Joshua 20:2-4

New International Reader's Version

² “Tell the Israelites to choose the cities to go to for safety, just as I directed you through Moses. ³ Anyone who kills a person by accident can run there for safety. So can anyone who kills a person without meaning to. The one charged with murder will be kept safe from the nearest male relative of the person killed. ⁴ Suppose those who are charged with murder run for safety to one of these cities. Then they must stand in the entrance of the city gate. They must state their case in front of the elders of that city. The elders must let them come into their city. The elders must provide a place for them to live in their city.