"The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

"'But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge, where he flees,

and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.