Joshua 20:2-4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

² “Tell the Israelites: Select your cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,^{(A) 3} so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.^{(B) 4} When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before^[a] the elders of that city, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.^(C)