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Deuteronomy says Moses set apart three cities east of the Jordan for a person who kills someone unintentionally to flee Deuteronomy 4:41–42. The cities named are Bezer, Ramoth, and Golan Deuteronomy 4:43. The purpose stated is protection in a case of accidental killing.
41Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;
42that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn`t hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
43[namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.