Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

40Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.

42to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

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Cross References

Numbers 35:14Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.

Deuteronomy 19:7This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

Joshua 20:2“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through 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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