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Deuteronomy 19:2
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Three Cities of Refuge

1 “When the Lord your God ahas cut off the nations whose land the Lord your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,  
2 ayou shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.  
3 You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, that any manslayer may flee there.
4 “And athis is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor1 unintentionally, not having hated him in time past—  
5 as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live;
6 alest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past.  
7 Therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall separate three cities for yourself.’
8 “Now if the Lord your God aenlarges your territory, as He swore to byour fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers,  
9 and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and to walk always in His ways, athen you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,  
10 alest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.  
11 “But aif anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,  
12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
13 aYour eye shall not pity him, bbut you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.  

Property Boundaries

14 a“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.  

The Law Concerning Witnesses

15 a“One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.  
Verse Comparison: Deuteronomy 19:2

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American Standard Version
thou shalt set apart three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Amplified® Bible
You shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess.

Contemporary English Version
you must choose three of your towns to be Safe Towns. Divide the land into three regions with one Safe Town near the middle of each, so that a Safe Town can be easily reached from anywhere in your land. Then, if one of you accidentally kills someone, you can run to a Safe Town and find protection from being put to death. But you must not have been angry with the person you killed.

Darby English Version
thou shalt separate three cities for thyself in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.

Good News Bible
divide the territory into three parts, each with a city that can be easily reached. Then any of you that kill will be able to escape to one of them for protection.

King James Version
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

New American Standard Bible
you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.

New International Version
then set aside for yourselves three cities centrally located in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

New King James Version
you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.

Revised Standard Version
you shall set apart three cities for you in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess.

Young's Literal Translation
three cities thou dost separate for thee in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.


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