Deuteronomy 4:42 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴² to which a homicide could flee, someone who unintentionally kills another person, the two not having been at enmity before; the homicide could flee to one of these cities and live:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴² that the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² That the manslayer might flee there, who slew his neighbor unintentionally and had not previously been at enmity with him, that fleeing to one of these cities he might save his life:

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴² that the manslayer might flee thither, that slayeth his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in time past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

Common English Bible

⁴² so that anyone who killed someone accidentally and without prior hatred could flee to one of these cities and be safe:

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² so that anyone might flee to these if he has killed his neighbor unwillingly, who was not his enemy a day or two earlier, and so that he would be able to escape to one of these cities:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴² That any one might flee to them who should kill his neighbour unwillingly, and was not his enemy a day or two before: and that he might escape to some one of these cities:

Deuteronomy 4:42 Cross References

Numbers 35:6

“The towns that you give to the Levites shall include the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit a slayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two towns.

Deuteronomy 4:41

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

Deuteronomy 4:43

Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland belonging to the Reubenites, Ramoth in Gilead belonging to the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan belonging to the Manassites.

Hebrews 6:18

so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible that God would prove false, we who have taken refuge might be strongly encouraged to seize the hope set before us.