then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east
“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set