Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue [a]him [b]in the heat of his anger, and overtake him because the way is long, and [c]take his life, though he was not sentenced to death since he had not hated him previously. Therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside for yourself three cities.’

“And if the Lord your God (A)enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that He [d]promised to give your fathers—

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 19:6 Lit the one who committed manslaughter
  2. Deuteronomy 19:6 Lit while his heart is hot
  3. Deuteronomy 19:6 Lit strike him in the soul
  4. Deuteronomy 19:8 Lit spoke

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