The Hebrew literally translates, Give yourselves the cities of refuge.
The cities were thus given by the people as a gift from the cities which they already possessed and had been allocated (gifted) to them by the Lord.1
The Hebrew literally translates, Give yourselves the cities of refuge.
The cities were thus given by the people as a gift from the cities which they already possessed and had been allocated (gifted) to them by the Lord.1
2 “Say to the people of Israel, ‘Appoint the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses,