And you shall give the cities to the Levites, the six cities of refuge which you shall give for the manslayer to flee there, and in addition to these, forty-two cities.

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign the cities of refuge, [of] which I spoke to you by Moses.

But if he should thrust him suddenly, not through enmity, or cast anything upon him, not from an ambush,

or [strike him] with any stone, whereby a man may die, unawares, and it should fall upon him, and he should die, but he was not his enemy, nor sought to hurt him;

But as for him that did it not willingly, but God delivered him into his hands, I will give you a place where the slayer may flee to.

that the manslayer might flee there, [one] who has killed his neighbor unintentionally, and should not have hated him in times past, and he shall flee to one of these cities and live.

And this shall be the ordinance of the manslayer who shall flee there, and shall live, whosoever has killed his neighbor ignorantly, seeing that he did not hate him in times past.

And whoever shall enter with his neighbor into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the ax should be violently shaken, and the axhead should fall off from the handle and strike his neighbor, and he should die, then he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.