41 At that time Moses set apart three cities on the eastern side of the Jordan.+ 42 If any manslayer unintentionally kills his fellow man and he did not previously hate him,+ he must flee to one of these cities and live.+ 43 The cities are Beʹzer+ in the wilderness on the tableland* for the Reuʹben·ites, Raʹmoth+ in Gilʹe·ad for the Gadʹites, and Goʹlan+ in Baʹshan for the Ma·nasʹsites.+

3 Then the king of Israel said to his servants: “Do you know that Raʹmoth-gilʹe·ad+ belongs to us? And yet we are hesitating to take it back from the king of Syria.”