Deuteronomy 4:41

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east;

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  • Num 35:6 : 6 And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.
  • Num 35:14-15 : 14 Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight. 15 For the children of Israel and for the man from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places, where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight.
  • Josh 20:2-9 : 2 Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses, 3 So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood. 4 And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe. 5 And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate. 6 And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight. 7 So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah. 8 And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. 9 These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.

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  • Deut 19:2-3
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    2You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

    3You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.

  • Deut 19:7
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    7And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.

  • Num 35:13-14
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    13Six of the towns which you give will be such safe places;

    14Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

  • Num 34:15-16
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    15The two tribes and the half-tribe have been given their heritage on the other side of Jordan at Jericho, on the east looking to the dawn.

    16And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 35:1-2
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    1And the Lord said to Moses in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho,

    2Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

  • Deut 4:42-44
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    42To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

    43The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.

    44This is the law which Moses put before the children of Israel:

  • Josh 13:32
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    32These are the heritages of which Moses made distribution in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan in Jericho, to the east.

  • Num 33:50
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    50And in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, the Lord said to Moses,

  • Deut 19:9
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    9If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you:

  • Deut 4:46-47
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    46On the far side of Jordan, in the valley facing Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel overcame after they had come out of Egypt:

    47And they took his land for a heritage, and the land of Og, king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, whose lands were on the other side of Jordan to the east;

  • Deut 1:5
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    5On the far side of Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses gave the people this law, saying,

  • Josh 20:1-2
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    1And the Lord said to Joshua,

    2Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

  • Josh 14:3
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    3For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

  • Num 26:3
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    3So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,

  • Num 36:13
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    13These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave to the children of Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.

  • Josh 21:39
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    39Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • Josh 20:8
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    8And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

  • Deut 11:30
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    30Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?

  • Num 35:9-11
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    9And the Lord said to Moses,

    10Say to the children of Israel, when you have gone over Jordan into the land of Canaan;

    11Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

  • Josh 21:37
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    37Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns.

  • Num 34:1
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    1And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Deut 3:27
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    27Go up to the top of Pisgah, and turning your eyes to the west and the north, to the south and the east, see the land with your eyes: for you are not to go over Jordan.

  • Deut 27:11
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    11That same day Moses said to the people,

  • Deut 4:49
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    49And all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the east, as far as the sea of the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah.

  • Josh 21:8
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    8All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.

  • Deut 34:1
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    1And Moses went up from the table-lands of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah which is facing Jericho. And the Lord let him see all the land, the land of Gilead as far as Dan;

  • Josh 1:14-15
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    14Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle will be kept here in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan; but you, the fighting-men, are to go over before your brothers, armed, to give them help;

    15Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.

  • Num 31:1
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    1Then the Lord said to Moses,

  • Deut 3:17
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    17As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

  • Josh 21:3
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    3And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

  • Deut 20:15
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    15So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.

  • Deut 3:29
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    29So we were waiting in the valley facing Beth-peor.

  • Deut 1:1
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    42Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.

  • Lev 4:1
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    1And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Deut 4:40
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    40Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

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    3And the South, and the circle of the valley of Jericho, the town of palm-trees, as far as Zoar.

  • Num 3:11
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    11And the Lord said to Moses,

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    6And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.