VIN(i)
2 separate three cities for you midst the land Yah Veh your Elohim gives you to possess.
3 Build roads throughout the land that the LORD your God is providing as an inheritance, and then divide it into three districts so that any killer may flee there.
4 This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him in time past—
5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
6 "Otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger. He may overtake him and because the way is long he may take his life. Even though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.
7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall separate for yourself three cities.
8 "If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, just as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land he promised to give your fathers.
9 and if you are careful to observe all these commands that I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God and to walk daily in his ways then add three more cities in addition to these three cities.
10 so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so guilt for blood be upon you.
11 "But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and murders him. If he flees to one of these cities,
12 Then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13 »Do not pity him. Purge the blood of the innocent from Israel that it may go well with you.