Joshua 20:3-5

International Standard Version

³ so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally and without premeditation may run there and be protected from closely related^[a] avengers. ⁴ He may run to one of those cities, stand at the entrance to the city gate, and tell his side of the story to the elders of the city. They are to bring him inside the city with them and provide him a place to live among them. ⁵ Now if the closely related^[b] avenger pursues him, then they are not to hand the killer over to him, because he killed his neighbor without premeditation and without hating him beforehand.