Deuteronomy 19:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ Therefore I command you: You shall set apart three cities.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ Therefore I command you, You shall set apart three [refuge] cities.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt set apart three cities for thee.

Common English Bible

⁷ This is why I am commanding you as follows: Designate three cities for your use.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For this reason, I instruct you to separate three cities at equal distance from one another.

Deuteronomy 19:7 Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:6

But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before.

Deuteronomy 19:8

“If the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he swore to your ancestors—and he will give you all the land that he promised your ancestors to give you,

Exodus 21:13

If it was not premeditated but came about by an act of God, then I will appoint for you a place to which the killer may flee.

Deuteronomy 3:18

“At that time, I charged you as follows: ‘Although the Lord your God has given you this land to occupy, all your troops shall cross over armed as the vanguard of your Israelite kin.

Deuteronomy 4:41

Then Moses set apart on the east side of the Jordan three cities