¹⁰ ‘Tell the Israelites to do this when they cross the Jordan River and they go into Canaan. ¹¹ They must choose some towns to be safe places. If anyone kills another person but he did not mean to, he can run there to be safe. ¹² Those towns will be places where the killer can be safe from the dead person's relative.^[a] The killer will not die before the people in the town have judged him.