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Deuteronomy 19:9-11
Lexham English Bible
Deuteronomy 19:9-11
Lexham English Bible
9 then if you diligently observe this entire commandment[a] that I am commanding you today[b] by loving Yahweh your God and by going[c] in his ways at all times,[d] then you shall add three more cities for yourselves to these three. 10 Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed[e] in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance and thereby bloodguilt would be on you.[f]
11 But if someone hates[g] his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up[h] against him and murders him,[i] and the murderer flees to one of these cities,
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- Deuteronomy 19:9 Literally “if you observe all of the commandment the this to do it”
- Deuteronomy 19:9 Literally “the day”
- Deuteronomy 19:9 Or “walking”
- Deuteronomy 19:9 Literally “all of the days”
- Deuteronomy 19:10 Hebrew “is not shed”
- Deuteronomy 19:10 Hebrew “shall be on you,” but conditional sense of imperfect is clear
- Deuteronomy 19:11 Hebrew “is hating”
- Deuteronomy 19:11 Or “gets up”
- Deuteronomy 19:11 Literally “and strikes him mortally with regard to his life and he dies”
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