World English Bible
Numbers 35:14
“You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.”
Verse in context — Numbers 35
The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
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