Numbers 35:11-15

11They must choose some towns to be safe places. If anyone kills another person but he did not mean to, he can run there to be safe.

12Those towns will be places where the killer can be safe from the dead person's relative. The killer will not die before the people in the town have judged him.

13You must choose six towns to be safe places.

14Three towns must be in Canaan and three towns must be on the other side of the Jordan River.

15Those six towns will be safe places for Israelites and for foreign people who live among them. Anyone who has killed another person may run to one of these towns and be safe there. But they will only be safe if they did not mean to kill the other person.