"Now this [is] the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live [there] who has killed his neighbor {unintentionally}, and he did not hate him {previously}.

The faithful [person] has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother [with] a net.

God

And David's men said to him, "Look, today [is] the day about which Yahweh said to you, 'See, I am giving your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him {whatever seems good to you}.'" So David got up and secretly cut the hem of Saul's robe.

The king said, "{What do we have in common}, sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because Yahweh has said to him 'Curse David,' who can say, "Why have you done this?"

But he does not think this, and his heart does not plan this. For [it is] in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations.

I will appoint

you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there.

Then Moses set apart three cities {on the other side of the Jordan}, {toward the east},

"When Yahweh your God has {exterminated} the nations [concerning whom] Yahweh your God [is] giving to you their land, and you have dispossessed them, and you have settled in their towns and in their houses,

"Speak to the {Israelites}, saying, 'Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through the hand of Moses.

General references

" 'Or if in an instant he shoved him, not in hostility, or threw something at him without intention,

'Cursed be the one who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'