Deuteronomy 19:2
you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.
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- Exodus 21:13 but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
- Numbers 35:10–12 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there. The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
- Deuteronomy 4:41–43 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.