Parallel
Deuteronomy 4:42
King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:
to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities: