So shall the cities serve you for places of refuge from the redeemer,—that the manslayer may not die, until he has stood before the assembly, for judgment,
Three of the cities, shall ye give, on this side the Jordan, and three of the cities, shall ye give in the land of Canaan,—cities of refuge, shall they be.
These, were the cities appointed for all the sons of Israel, and for the sojourner who sojourneth in their midst, that whosoever should slay a person by mistake, might flee thither,—and not die by the hand of the blood-redeemer, until he should stand before the assembly.
And, among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give that the manslayer may flee thither,—and besides them, ye shall give, forty-two cities,
And, to the sons of Aaron, gave they, the cities of refuge—Hebron, and Libnah, with her pasture lands,—and Jattir and Eshtemoa, with her pasture lands;