Joshua 20:5
And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime. And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
Like the road that led a pursued fugitive to a city of refuge, the road to happiness and life was made plain and unmistakable. The law stood as its signpost, directing to willing obedience to the Creator as the way to life, and marking disobedience as the path to misery and death. The enemy has turned that signpost around, so that many mistake the way and travel toward ruin while supposing they go toward life.