7This is why I command you to set aside for yourselves three cities.


In Context

4 This is the rule concerning the man who kills another and flees there to save his life-one who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought.

5 For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.

6 Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue him in a rage, overtake him if the distance is too great, and kill him even though he is not deserving of death, since he did it to his neighbor without malice aforethought.

7 This is why I command you to set aside for yourselves three cities.

8 If the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your forefathers, and gives you the whole land he promised them,

9 because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today-to love the Lord your God and to walk always in his ways-then you are to set aside three more cities.

Deuteronomy 19:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:7Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:7Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities at equal distance one from another.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:7Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt set apart three cities for thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:7Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thyself.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:7Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:7Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:7therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:7Why I command you, saying, You shall separate three cities for you.