Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses set aside three cities, across the Jordan toward the eastern region,

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In The King James Version

Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

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40Keep his precepts and commandments, which I am teaching to you, so that it may be well with you, and with your sons after you, and so that you may remain for a long time upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.”

42so that anyone might flee to these if he has killed his neighbor unwillingly, who was not his enemy a day or two earlier, and so that he would be able to escape to one of these cities:

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Cross References

Numbers 35:14three shall be across the Jordan, and three in the land of Canaan,

Deuteronomy 19:7For this reason, I instruct you to separate three cities at equal distance from one another.

Joshua 20:2Separate the cities of refuge, about which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses,

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41

Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →

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