Deuteronomy 19:2-4

International Children’s Bible

² Then choose three cities. They must be in the middle of the land the Lord your God is giving you to own. ³ Build roads to those cities. And divide the land the Lord is giving you into three parts. Then someone who kills another person may run to these cities.

⁴ This is the rule for someone who kills another person. He may run to one of these cities to save his life. But he must have killed his neighbor without meaning to kill him. He did not hate his neighbor.