Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses separates three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sun-rising,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

40and you have kept His statutes and His commands which I am commanding you today, so that it is well for you, and for your sons after you, and so that you prolong days on the ground which your God YHWH is giving to you—all the days.”

42for the fleeing there of the manslayer who slays his neighbor unknowingly, and he is not hating him before, and he has fled to one of these cities and he has lived:

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Cross References

Numbers 35:14three of the cities you give from beyond the Jordan, and three of the cities you give in the land of Canaan; they are cities of refuge.

Deuteronomy 19:7therefore I am commanding you, saying, You separate three cities for yourself.

Joshua 20:2“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Give cities of refuge for yourselves, as I have spoken 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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