Numbers 35

Numbers 35:6

And to them shall ye add forty and two cities.

Besides those six cities of refuge which shall be given to the Levites for their possession, ye shall also add two and forty cities more, to be the peculiarities of the said Levites; so as forty-eight cities shall be allotted to them, for their inheritance.

Numbers 35:12

That the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

That whosoever hath committed manslaughter may, for the time, shelter himself there; till he may have a fair and judicial trial before the elders of that city, where the fact was done; and may not be surprised by the avenger of blood, ere his cause be fully heard.

Numbers 35:21

The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

The revenger of blood, to whom lawful authority shall commit the execution, shall slay the murderer: when he is delivered into his hand by a legal judgment, he shall be his executioner.