This and the next two chapters contain enactments designed to protect human life, and to impress its sanctity on Israel.

In Deuteronomy 19:1…

Deuteronomy 19:1–13. THE CITIES OF REFUGE.

(See for more on this subject, Numbers 35:9 and following…

And if the Lord your God enlarge your coast
Extend it further than it was upon their first settlement, even carry it…

Here is the law settled between the blood of the murdered and the blood of the murderer; provision is made that the cities of refuge should be a pr…