Deuteronomy 4:41

World English Bible (2000)

Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

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  • Num 35:6 : 6 "The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.
  • Num 35:14-15 : 14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge. 15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
  • Josh 20:2-9 : 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses, 3 that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. 4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them. 5 If the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before. 6 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.'" 7 They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. 8 Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. 9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives 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.

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  • Deut 19:2-3
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    2you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

    3You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

  • Deut 19:7
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    7Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.

  • Num 35:13-14
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    13The cities which you shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.

    14You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and you shall give three cities in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

  • Num 34:15-16
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    15the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise."

    16Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 35:1-2
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

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

  • Deut 4:42-44
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    42that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:

    43[namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

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

  • Josh 13:32
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    32These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.

  • Num 33:50
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    50Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

  • Deut 19:9
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    9if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:

  • Deut 4:46-47
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    46beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel struck, when they came forth out of Egypt.

    47They took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise;

  • Deut 1:5
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    5Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,

  • Josh 20:1-2
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    1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

    2"Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

  • Josh 14:3
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    3For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

  • Num 26:3
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    3Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

  • Num 36:13
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    13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

  • Josh 21:39
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    39Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.

  • Josh 20:8
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    8Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, 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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    30Aren't they beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

  • Num 35:9-11
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    9Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    10"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

    11then you shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

  • Josh 21:37
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    37Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.

  • Num 34:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 3:27
    68%

    27Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes: for you shall not go over this Jordan.

  • Deut 27:11
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    11Moses commanded the people the same day, saying,

  • Deut 4:49
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    49and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

  • Josh 21:8
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    8The children of Israel gave these cities with their suburbs by lot to the Levites, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.

  • Deut 34:1
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    1Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,

  • Josh 1:14-15
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    14Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them

    15until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.'"

  • Num 31:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 3:17
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    17the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border [of it], from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

  • Josh 21:3
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    3The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.

  • Deut 20:15
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    15Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

  • Deut 3:29
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    29So we stayed in the valley over against Beth Peor.

  • Deut 1:1
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    1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

  • Josh 21:42
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    42Each of these cities included their suburbs around them. It was this way with all these cities.

  • Lev 4:1
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    1Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Deut 4:40
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    40You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.

  • Deut 34:3
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    3and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.

  • Num 3:11
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    11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Num 35:6
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    6"The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them you shall give forty-two cities.