Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

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

In Context

40You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord your God gives you, forever.

42that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and did not hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

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Cross References

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

Deuteronomy 19:7Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

Joshua 20:2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by 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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