6. Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.
7. Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.
8. If the Lord your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
9. if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.