the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Green's Literal Translation
Deuteronomy 19:7
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Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.
Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourself.
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
This is why I command you to choose these three cities.
Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
"Therefore, I command you, saying, 'You shall set aside three cities [of refuge] for yourself.'
Therfor Y comaunde to thee, that thou departe thre citees of euene space bitwixe hem silf.
therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee.
This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
That's why I said there must be three Safe Towns.
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt set apart three cities for thee.
And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.
Wherfore I commaunde thee, saying: Thou shalt appoynt out three cities for thee.
This is why I am ordering you to set aside for yourselves three cities.
Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thyself.
That is why I commanded you to choose three special cities.
Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.'
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
So I tell you, ‘Set apart three cities for yourself.'
Therefore I command you: You shall set apart three cities.
For this cause, am I commanding thee saying, - Three cities, shalt thou set apart for thee.
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt appoint out three cities for thee.
Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
This is why I order you to set aside three cities.
Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities at equal distance one from another.
Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.
Therefore I charge thee, saying, Thou shalt separate for thy self three cities.
This is why I am commanding you to set apart three cities for yourselves.
Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
Therefore I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall set apart three cities.'
Therfore commaunde I the, that thou appoynte out thre cities.
"Therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall set aside for yourself three cities.'
Therefore I command you, saying, "You shall separate three cities for yourself.'
That is why I am commanding you to set aside three cities of refuge.
"Therefore, I command you, saying, 'You shall set aside three cities for yourself.'
Therefore, I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall set apart three cities for yourself.'
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Before they had laid down, even the men of the city, the men of Sodom, circled the house; from the young to the aged, all the people from its limits.
And they said, Stand back! And they said, This one came in to visit, and must he always judge? Now we will do evil to you rather than to them. And they pressed on the man, upon Lot violently, and drew near to break the door.
And they struck the men at the door of the house with blindness, from the small to the great; and they struggled to find the door.
The sun had gone forth on the earth, and Lot came into Zoar.
And Jehovah rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from Jehovah out of the heavens.
And you shall not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is a perversion.
And a man who lies with a male as one lies with a woman, both of them have done a detestable thing, dying they shall die; their blood shall be on them.
There shall be no prostitute among the daughters of Israel, nor shall there be a homosexual among the sons of Israel.
And the man, the house-master, went out to them and said to them, No, my brothers, please do not do evil, since this man has come into my house; do not do this grave sin.
And He made every nation of men of one blood, to live on all the face of the earth, ordaining fore-appointed seasons and boundaries of their dwelling,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wherefore I command thee, saying, thou shalt separate three cities for thee. This was to be done immediately, as soon as they were settled in the land of Canaan, and established in the possession of it, the inhabitants being cut off, or driven out, or however subdued.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This and the next two chapters contain enactments designed to protect human life, and to impress its sanctity on Israel.
In Deuteronomy 19:1-13 the directions respecting the preparation of the roads to the cities of refuge, the provision of additional cities in case of an extension of territory, and the intervention of the elders as representing the congregation, are unique to Deuteronomy and supplementary to the laws on the same subject given in the earlier books (compare the marginal reference).
Deuteronomy 19:1, Deuteronomy 19:2
The three cities of refuge for the district east of Jordan had been already named. Moses now directs that when the territory on the west of Jordan had been conquered, a like allotment of three other cities in it should be made. This was accordingly done; compare Joshua 20:1 ff,
Deuteronomy 19:3
Thou shalt prepare thee a way - It was the duty of the Senate to repair the roads that led to the cities of refuge annually, and remove every obstruction. No hillock was left, no river over which there was not a bridge; and the road was at least 32 cubits broad. At cross-roads there were posts bearing the words Refuge, Refuge, to guide the fugitive in his flight. It seems as if in Isaiah 40:3 ff the imagery were borrowed from the preparation of the ways to the cities of refuge.
Deuteronomy 19:5
With the axe - literally, “with the iron.” Note the employment of iron for tools, and compare Deuteronomy 3:11 note.
Deuteronomy 19:8, Deuteronomy 19:9
Provision is here made for the anticipated enlargement of the borders of Israel to the utmost limits promised by God, from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates (Genesis 15:18, note; Exodus 23:31, note). This promise, owing to the sins of the people, did not receive its fulfillment until after David had conquered the Philistines, Syrians, etc.; and this but a transient one, for many of the conquered peoples regained independence on the dissolution of Solomon’s empire.
