Numbers 35:6

35:6 Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. ¹  And you must give them forty-two other towns.

Joshua 20:2

20:2 “Have the Israelites select ²  the cities of refuge ³  that I told you about through Moses.

[35:6]  ¹ tn The “manslayer” is the verb “to kill” in a participial form, providing the subject of the clause. The verb means “to kill”; it can mean accidental killing, premeditated killing, or capital punishment. The clause uses the infinitive to express purpose or result: “to flee there the manslayer,” means “so that the manslayer may flee there.”

[20:2]  ² tn Heb “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘Set aside for yourselves.’”

[20:2]  ³ tn Or “asylum.”