6 He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time.i Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to his own city from which he fled.”

7 So they designated Kedesh in the hill country of Naphtali in Galilee,j Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.k