40. Keep the Lord’s regulations and his commandments. I’m commanding them to you today for your well-being and for the well-being of your children after you, so that you may extend your time on the fertile land that the Lord your God is giving you forever.
41. Then Moses set aside three cities on the eastern side of the Jordan River
42. so that anyone who killed someone accidentally and without prior hatred could flee to one of these cities and be safe:
43. Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
44. Now this is the Instruction that Moses set before the Israelites.
45. These are the laws and the regulations and the case laws that Moses spoke to the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
46. This took place across the Jordan River, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses and the Israelites defeated when they came out of Egypt.