12. These cities will serve you as places of asylum from the avenger of blood, so that a homicide will not be put to death until tried before the community.
13. As for the cities you assign, you will have six cities of asylum:
14. you will designate three cities beyond the Jordan, and you will designate three cities in the land of Canaan. These will be cities of asylum.
15. These six cities will serve as places of asylum for the Israelites, and for the resident or transient aliens among them, so that anyone who has killed a person inadvertently may flee there.
16. If someone strikes another with an iron instrument and causes death, that person is a murderer, and the murderer must be put to death.