Numbers 35:11
then you shall select for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge, so that the one who kills any person unintentionally may escape there.
Exodus 21:13
However,
Joshua 20:2
“Speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘Designate the cities of refuge (asylum), of which I spoke to you through Moses,
Numbers 35:6
[Among] the cities which you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall provide for the one who commits manslaughter to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities [to the Levites].
Numbers 35:22-25
‘But if he pushed the victim suddenly, not in enmity, or threw anything at him without malicious intent,
Deuteronomy 4:42
so that someone who committed manslaughter could flee there, [that is, a person] who killed his neighbor unintentionally and without previously having hostility toward him, and that by escaping to one of these cities he might [claim the right of asylum and] save his life:
Deuteronomy 19:1-13
“When the Lord your God cuts off (destroys) the nations whose land He is giving you, and you dispossess them and live in their cities and in their houses,