⁷ So they appointed ^(A)Kedesh in Galilee, in the mountains of Naphtali, ^(B)Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and ^(C)Kirjath Arba (which is Hebron) in ^(D)the mountains of Judah. ⁸ And on the other side of the Jordan, by Jericho eastward, they assigned ^(E)Bezer in the wilderness on the plain, from the tribe of Reuben, ^(F)Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and ^(G)Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh. ^9 (H)These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger who ^[a]dwelt among them, that whoever killed a person accidentally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood ^(I)until he stood before the congregation.