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Deuteronomy 19:9-11
Lexham English Bible

9 then if you diligently observe this entire commandment[a] that I am commanding you today[b] by loving Yahweh your God and by going[c] in his ways at all times,[d] then you shall add three more cities for yourselves to these three. 10 Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed[e] in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance and thereby bloodguilt would be on you.[f]

11 But if someone hates[g] his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up[h] against him and murders him,[i] and the murderer flees to one of these cities,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 19:9 Literally “if you observe all of the commandment the this to do it”
  2. Deuteronomy 19:9 Literally “the day”
  3. Deuteronomy 19:9 Or “walking”
  4. Deuteronomy 19:9 Literally “all of the days”
  5. Deuteronomy 19:10 Hebrew “is not shed”
  6. Deuteronomy 19:10 Hebrew “shall be on you,” but conditional sense of imperfect is clear
  7. Deuteronomy 19:11 Hebrew “is hating”
  8. Deuteronomy 19:11 Or “gets up”
  9. Deuteronomy 19:11 Literally “and strikes him mortally with regard to his life and he dies”
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Deuteronomy 19:9-11
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9 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(A)—then you are to set aside three more cities. 10 Do this so that innocent blood(B) will not be shed in your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.(C)

11 But if out of hate someone lies in wait, assaults and kills a neighbor,(D) and then flees to one of these cities,

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