⁶ They are to stay in that city until they have stood trial before the assembly^(A) and until the death of the high priest who is serving at that time. Then they may go back to their own home in the town from which they fled.”

⁷ So they set apart Kedesh^(B) in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem^(C) in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba^(D) (that is, Hebron^(E)) in the hill country of Judah.^{(F) 8} East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer^(G) in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead^(H) in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan^(I) in the tribe of Manasseh.