Cities of Refuge^(A)

⁴¹ Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan,

² “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

⁷ So they set apart Kedesh^(A) in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem^(B) in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba^(C) (that is, Hebron^(D)) in the hill country of Judah.^(E)

⁸ East of the Jordan (on the other side from Jericho) they designated Bezer^(A) in the wilderness on the plateau in the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead^(B) in the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan^(C) in the tribe of Manasseh.

³ So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance: