41. Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east.
42. Someone could flee there who committed manslaughter, killing his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him. He could flee to one of these cities and stay alive:
43. Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau land, belonging to the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, belonging to the Gadites; or Golan in Bashan, belonging to the Manassites.
44. This is the law Moses gave the Israelites.
45. These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,
46. across the Jordan in the valley facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites. He lived in Heshbon, and Moses and the Israelites defeated him after they came out of Egypt.