¹⁴ “‘You must give three towns on this side of the Jordan, and you must give three towns in the land of Canaan; they must be towns of refuge. ¹⁵ These six towns will be places of refuge for the Israelites, and for the resident foreigner, and for the settler among them, so that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

¹⁶ “‘But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies,^[a] he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.