⁶ “Now among the cities which you will give to the Levites you shall appoint ^(A)six cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. And to these you shall add forty-two cities.

¹³ Thus ^(A)to the children of Aaron the priest they gave ^(B)Hebron with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), ^(C)Libnah with its common-land,

³ So the children of Israel gave to the Levites from their inheritance, at the commandment of the Lord, these cities and their common-lands:

³⁸ and from the tribe of Gad, ^(A)Ramoth in Gilead with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Mahanaim with its common-land,

^36 [a]and from the tribe of Reuben, ^(A)Bezer with its common-land, Jahaz with its common-land,

³² and from the tribe of Naphtali, ^(A)Kedesh in Galilee with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), Hammoth Dor with its common-land, and Kartan with its common-land: three cities.

^27 (A)Also to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, from the other half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave ^(B)Golan in Bashan with its common-land (a city of refuge for the slayer), and Be Eshterah with its common-land: two cities;

²¹ For they gave them ^(A)Shechem with its common-land in the mountains of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the slayer), ^(B)Gezer with its common-land,

¹⁸ that by two ^[a]immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to ^(A)lie, we ^[b]might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope ^(B)set before us.