9. then you are to select three more cities. (He will give you this land if you do everything that I command you today and if you love the Lord your God and live according to his teachings.)
10. Do this, so that innocent people will not die and so that you will not be guilty of putting them to death in the land that the Lord is giving you.
11. “But suppose someone deliberately murders an enemy in cold blood and then escapes to one of those cities for protection.