6. Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.
7. Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
8. If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
9. and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.
10. You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.