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Moses sets apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise

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Deuteronomy 4:41–43: Moses sets apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

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DEU 4:41–43, engwebp
⁴¹Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
⁴²that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
⁴³Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
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Unresolved interpretation: The three cities of Deuteronomy 19 and the six cities of refuge of Numbers 35

Numbers 35:9–15 records that the LORD told Moses that when the children of Israel pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan they are to appoint six cities of refuge: three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan.
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- NUM 35:9–15, engwebp
  ⁹The LORD 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 for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
  ¹²The cities shall be for your refuge from the avenger, that the man slayer not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment.
  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.
  ¹⁵These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreigner living among them, that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
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Deuteronomy 19:1–10 commands that three cities be set apart in the middle of the land the LORD gives, and that three cities more be added to these three if the LORD enlarges the border and gives all the land he promised to the fathers, and all the commandment is kept. These verses name none of the cities and do not call them cities of refuge.
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- DEU 19:1–10, engwebp
  ¹When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
  ²you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.
  ³You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which the LORD your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.
  ⁴This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—
  ⁵as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies—he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
  ⁶Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.
  ⁷Therefore I command you to set apart three cities for yourselves.
  ⁸If the LORD 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;
  ⁹and if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways, then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, in addition to these three.
  ¹⁰This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.
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Deuteronomy 4:41–43 says that Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise: Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
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- DEU 4:41–43, engwebp
  ⁴¹Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,
  ⁴²that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
  ⁴³Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
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Both records appoint the cities to which a man slayer may flee three at a time, but Numbers divides six cities between the land beyond the Jordan and the land of Canaan, while Deuteronomy 19 adds to three cities in the middle of the land three more for when the border is enlarged and the commandment is kept, and Deuteronomy 4:41–43 names three cities beyond the Jordan. This collection does not link the cities of the three records, and does not decide whether the cities of Deuteronomy 19 are among those of Numbers 35, or which they are, or how many cities there are in all.

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Current wording: Deuteronomy 4:41–43: Moses sets apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, that the man slayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally and didn’t hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
Cited evidence: DEU 4:41–43, engwebp
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