Numbers 35:11-15

English Standard Version

^11 (A)then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there. ¹² The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment. ¹³ And the cities that you give shall be your ^(B)six cities of refuge. ^14 (C)You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge. ¹⁵ These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and ^(D)for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.