Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east Cross References Numbers 35:6 Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities. Numbers 35:14 Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge. Deuteronomy 4:42 to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one's own life, he could flee to one of these cities: Deuteronomy 19:2 then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. Joshua 20:2 "Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, Joshua 20:7 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. Treasury of Scripture Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sun rise; Numbers 35:6,14,15 Joshua 20:2-9 |