Deuteronomy 19:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourself.

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  • Deut 19:1-4
    4 verses
    90%

    1When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and houses;

    2You shall set apart three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.

    3You shall prepare a road for yourself, and divide the territory of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, so that every manslayer may flee there.

    4And this is the case of the manslayer who shall flee there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, whom he did not hate in time past;

  • Deut 19:8-14
    7 verses
    82%

    8And if the LORD your God enlarges your border, as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give to your fathers;

    9If you keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk always in His ways, then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three;

    10That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

    11But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and flees into one of these cities;

    12Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

    13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

    14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

  • Num 35:11-15
    5 verses
    79%

    11Then you shall appoint cities for yourselves to be cities of refuge; that the slayer may flee there, who kills any person accidentally.

    12And they shall be for you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer may not die, until he stands before the congregation in judgment.

    13And of these cities which you shall give, you shall have six cities for refuge.

    14You shall give three cities on this side of Jordan, and three cities shall you give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.

    15These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the traveler among them: that anyone who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

  • Deut 4:41-43
    3 verses
    77%

    41Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of Jordan toward the sunrise;

    42That the slayer might flee there, who should kill his neighbor unintentionally, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

    43Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, on the plain land of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

  • Josh 20:1-4
    4 verses
    75%

    1The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying,

    2Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Set apart cities of refuge for yourselves, of which I spoke to you through Moses:

    3That the slayer who kills any person unintentionally and unknowingly may flee there: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

    4And when he who flees to one of those cities shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and shall declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city to them and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

  • Deut 19:6
    74%

    6Lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him; though he was not worthy of death, since he did not hate him in time past.

  • Josh 20:9
    73%

    9These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger residing among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.

  • Deut 20:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

    16But of the cities of these people, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes:

    17But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD your God has commanded you:

  • Num 35:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6And among the cities which you shall give to the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which you shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee there: and to them you shall add forty-two cities.

    7So all the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities: these shall you give with their suburbs.

  • Deut 21:2
    72%

    2Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain;

  • Josh 20:7
    71%

    7And they designated Kedesh in Galilee in the mountain of Naphtali, and Shechem in the mountain of Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

  • Josh 21:3
    70%

    3And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, at the command of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.

  • Deut 7:11
    70%

    11Therefore you shall keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command you this day, to do them.

  • Num 35:9
    69%

    9And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 35:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho, saying,

    2Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and give to the Levites suburbs for the cities around them as well.

  • Josh 21:32
    69%

    32And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.

  • Deut 17:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7The hands of the witnesses shall be the first to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.

    8If a matter arises that is too hard for you to judge, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of dispute within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses,

  • 2 Chr 19:10
    69%

    10And whatever cause shall come to you from your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, you shall even warn them that they do not trespass against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you and upon your brethren: this do, and you shall not trespass.

  • Deut 13:12
    68%

    12If you shall hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God has given you to dwell there, saying,

  • Deut 12:14
    68%

    14But in the place which the LORD will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

  • Num 35:27
    68%

    27And the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

  • Deut 17:10
    68%

    10You shall do according to the decision they give you at the place which the LORD chooses, and you shall be careful to do according to all that they instruct you.

  • Josh 18:6
    68%

    6You shall therefore describe the land into seven parts and bring the description here to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

  • Num 35:29
    68%

    29So these things shall be for a statute of judgment to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Num 31:19
    68%

    19And remain outside the camp seven days; whoever has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

  • Num 35:24
    68%

    24Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

  • Deut 3:19
    67%

    19But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (for I know that you have much livestock), shall remain in your cities which I have given you;