“Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.”
Now this is the case of a homicide who might flee there and live, that is, someone who has killed another person unintentionally when the two had not been at enmity before — the distinction between unintentional killing (shogeg) and murder (zamid) becomes crucial; accidental homicide does not warrant death, establishing proto-criminal law's recognition of intent.
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