40. Keep the Lord’s regulations and his commandments. I’m commanding them to you today for your well-being and for the well-being of your children after you, so that you may extend your time on the fertile land that the Lord your God is giving you forever.
41. Then Moses set aside three cities on the eastern side of the Jordan River
42. so that anyone who killed someone accidentally and without prior hatred could flee to one of these cities and be safe: