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Deuteronomy 19:7
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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.'
Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three cities.
This is why I command you to choose these three cities.
Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
"Therefore, I command you, saying, 'You shall set aside three cities [of refuge] for yourself.'
"Therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall set aside for yourself three cities.'
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt appoint out three cities for thee.
Therefore, I am commanding you, saying, ‘You shall set apart three cities for yourself.'
That's why I said there must be three Safe Towns.
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.
Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
This is why I order you to set aside three cities.
On account of this I am commanding you, saying, You shall separate to yourself three cities.
Therfore commaunde I the, that thou appoynte out thre cities.
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.
Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.'
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
Therefore I charge thee, saying, Thou shalt separate for thy self three cities.
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee.
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.
Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
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.
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.
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 command you, saying, 'You shall set aside three cities for yourself.'
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Forsothe bifore that thei yeden to sleepe, men of the citee compassiden his hows, fro a child `til to an eld man, al the puple togidre;
And thei seiden, Go thou fro hennus. And eft thei seiden, Thou entridist as a comelyng; wher that thou deme? therfor we schulen turment thee more than these. And thei diden violentli to Loth ful greetli. Thanne it was nyy that thei wolden breke the doris; and lo!
And thei smyten with blyndenesse hem that weren withoutforth, fro the leest til to the moost; so that thei myyten not fynde the dore.
The sunne roos on erthe, and Loth entride in to Segor.
Therfor the Lord reynede on Sodom and Gomorre brynston and fier, fro the Lord fro heuene,
Thou schalt not be medlid with a man bi letcherie of womman, for it is abhomynacioun.
If a man slepith with a man, bi letcherie of a womman, euer either hath wrouyt vnleueful thing, die thei bi deeth; her blood be on hem.
Noon hoore schal be of the douytris of Israel, nether a letchour of the sones of Israel.
And the elde man yede out to hem, and seide, Nyle ye, britheren, nyle ye do this yuel; for the man entride in to myn herbore; and ceesse ye of this foli.
and made of oon al the kinde of men to enhabite on al the face of the erthe, determynynge tymes ordeyned, and termes of the dwellynge of hem,
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.
