Deuteronomy 4:40-42

New Life Version

⁴⁰ Keep His Laws which I am giving you today. Then it may go well with you and your children after you. And you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

⁴¹ Then Moses set apart three cities east of the Jordan ⁴² where a person may run to, if he killed his neighbor without meaning to and had not hated him in the past. He might save his life by running to one of these cities: