Numbers 35:30-31

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[30] Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die. [31] Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

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On the plains of Moab, east of the Jordan near Jericho, Israel was preparing to enter Canaan, the land God promised them. These locations frame the laws for cities of refuge and capital cases, given before Israel established justice within the land.

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Numbers 35:30-31 mentions Canaan, Jericho, Jordan and Moab.