3 You are to determine the distances(a) and divide the land the Lord your God is granting you as an inheritance into three regions, so that anyone who commits manslaughter can flee to these cities.(b)
4 “Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:

Footnotes:

a. Deuteronomy 19:3: Or to prepare the roads
b. Deuteronomy 19:3: Lit flee there

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