And יהוה spoke to Mosheh saying

Speak to the sons of Yisra'el saying, 'Give yourselves the cities of refuge, which I spoke to you by the hand of Mosheh.'

'For a killer of a soul by accident, by not knowing, to flee there, and they will be for you for a refuge from the blood avenger.'

'And he who flees to one of these cities will stand at the entrance of the gate of that city and speak his words in the ears of the elders of that city. And they will gather him into the city to them and give him a place and he will dwell with them.'

'And if the blood avenger pursues him, and they do not hand over the killer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor by not knowing, and he was not hating him from yesterday or the day before.'

'And he will dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the High Priest who will be in those days. Then the killer will return and come to his city and to his house, to the city from which he fled.'

'And they consecrated Qedesh in the Galil on Mount Naftali, and Shəqem on Mount Efrayim, and Qiryat-'Arba, that is Ḥevron, on Mount Yehudah.'

'And from beyond the Yarden of Yerikho, eastward, they gave Betser in the wilderness in the plain from the tribe of Re'uven, and Ramot in Gil'ad from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Menashshe.'

'These were the cities appointed for all the sons of Yisra'el, and for the sojourner dwelling among them, for any killer of a soul by accident to flee there, and not die by the hand of the blood avenger until he stands before the congregation.'