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Deuteronomy 19:9-11
New English Translation

9 and then you are careful to observe all these commandments[a] I am giving[b] you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities[c] to these three. 10 You must not shed innocent blood[d] in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.[e] 11 However, suppose a person hates someone else[f] and stalks him, attacks him, kills him,[g] and then flees to one of these cities.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 19:9 tn Heb “all this commandment.” This refers here to the entire covenant agreement of the Book of Deuteronomy as encapsulated in the Shema (Deut 6:4-5).
  2. Deuteronomy 19:9 tn Heb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today.”
  3. Deuteronomy 19:9 sn You will add three more cities. Since these are alluded to nowhere else and thus were probably never added, this must be a provision for other cities of refuge should they be needed (cf. v. 8). See P. C. Craigie, Deuteronomy (NICOT), 267.
  4. Deuteronomy 19:10 tn Heb “innocent blood must not be shed.” The Hebrew phrase דָּם נָקִי (dam naqi) means the blood of a person to whom no culpability or responsibility adheres because what he did was without malice aforethought (HALOT 224 s.v דָּם 4.b).
  5. Deuteronomy 19:10 tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”
  6. Deuteronomy 19:11 tn Heb “his neighbor.”
  7. Deuteronomy 19:11 tn Heb “rises against him and strikes him fatally.”
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