Deu 19:2-4 | ESV | STEP | you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess .

a Ex. 21:13; Num. 35:10, 14; Josh. 20:2, 8

Deuteronomy 19:2-4

2 ^ayou shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess. 3 You shall measure the distances ^{▼▼Hebrew road} and divide into three parts the area of the land that the Lord your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.

4 “This is the provision for ^cthe manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbor unintentionally without having hated him in the past—