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40 Keep his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you today, so that it may go well for you and for your children after you, and so that you may live long on the land[a] that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.[b]

Cities of Refuge

41 Then Moses set aside three cities in the region east of the Jordan, the place where the sun rises, 42 so that someone who killed a man could flee to them, that is, someone who killed his neighbor unintentionally and who did not previously hate him—he could flee to one of these cities and remain alive:

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:40 Or on the soil
  2. Deuteronomy 4:40 Literally for all the days