Deuteronomy 19:2-4

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^2-3 Make the land into three separate regions. Then choose three special cities, one city in each region.^[a] Build good roads to each city so that people can easily travel to them. Then anyone who kills a person can run to one of these cities to be safe.

⁴ This is the rule when anyone has killed another person: If it was a mistake, he can run to a safe city. He can do that if he has killed someone that he did not already hate.