Deuteronomy 4:41-49

New King James Version

Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan

⁴¹ Then Moses ^(A)set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, ^42 (B)that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live: ^43 (C)Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

Introduction to God’s Law

⁴⁴ Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel. ⁴⁵ These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments which Moses spoke to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt, ⁴⁶ on this side of the Jordan, ^(D)in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel ^(E)defeated^[a] after they came out of Egypt. ⁴⁷ And they took possession of his land and the land ^(F)of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the ^[b]rising of the sun, ^48 (G)from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, even to Mount ^[c]Sion (that is, ^(H)Hermon), ⁴⁹ and all the plain on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the ^(I)slopes of Pisgah.