Deuteronomy 19:1-3

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Cities of Safety

19 When the Lord your God gives you land that belongs to the other nations, nations that he will ·destroy [cut off], you will ·force them out [dispossess them] and live in their cities and houses. ² Then ·choose [set apart; separate] three cities in the middle of the land the Lord your God is giving you as your ·own [possession]. ³ ·Build roads to these cities [or Work out the distances], and divide the land the Lord is giving you into three parts so that someone who kills another person may run to ·these cities [^Lthere].