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


In Context

4 This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;

5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

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

8 If Yahweh 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;

9 if 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:

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:7This is why I command you to set aside for yourselves three cities.

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 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.