13. And of the cities which you give there shall be your six cities for refuge.
14. You shall give three cities on this [east] side of the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge.
15. These six cities shall be a refuge for the Israelites and for the stranger and the temporary resident among them; that anyone who kills any person unintentionally and unawares may flee there.
16. But if he struck him down with an instrument of iron so that he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
17. And if he struck him down by throwing a stone, by which a person may die, and he died, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
18. Or if he struck him down with a weapon of wood in his hand, by which one may die, and he died, the offender is a murderer; he shall surely be put to death.
19. The avenger of blood shall himself slay the murderer; when he meets him, he shall slay him.
20. But if he stabbed him through hatred or hurled at him by lying in wait so that he died
21. Or in enmity struck him down with his hand so that he died, he that smote him shall surely be put to death; he is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall slay the murderer when he meets him.
22. But if he stabbed him suddenly without enmity or threw anything at or upon him without lying in wait
23. Or with any stone with which a man may be killed, not seeing him, and threw it at him so that he died, and was not his enemy nor sought to harm him,
24. Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
25. And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood and restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled; and he shall live in it until the high priest dies, who was anointed with the sacred oil.
26. But if the slayer shall at any time come outside the limits of his city of refuge to which he had fled
27. And the avenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge and kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood
28. Because the manslayer should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the high priest's death the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.
29. And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.