Therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside for yourself three cities.’

“And if the Lord your God (A)enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that He [a]promised to give your fathers— if you [b]carefully follow all of this commandment which I am commanding you today, (B)to love the Lord your God, and to walk in His ways always—(C)then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 19:8 Lit spoke
  2. Deuteronomy 19:9 Lit keep all...to do it

This is why I command you to set aside for yourselves three cities.

If the Lord your God enlarges your territory,(A) as he promised(B) on oath to your ancestors, and gives you the whole land he promised them, because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today—to love the Lord your God and to walk always in obedience to him(C)—then you are to set aside three more cities.

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