Numbers 35:12-19

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.

16Murderers are different. You must kill a murderer. Maybe someone hits another person with a heavy iron tool. If the person dies, the murderer must also die.

17Someone might hit another person with a big stone. If the person dies, the man is a murderer. He must die.

18A man might hit a person with a dangerous weapon made from wood. If the person dies, the man is a murderer. He must die.

19The dead person's relative himself must kill the murderer when he meets him.