If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
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Gill's Exposition
That innocent blood be not shed,.... As it would be if such a slayer as before described was killed by the avenger of blood, before he could get to one of these cities of refuge, or supposing that…
This and the next two chapters contain enactments designed to protect human life, and to impress its sanctity on Israel. In Deu 19:1-13 the directions respecting the preparation of the roads to the…
It was one of the precepts given to the sons of Noah that whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, that is, by the avenger of blood, Gen 9:6. Now here we have the law settled between…
Cambridge Bible
A parenthesis, being the condition of the promise in Deu 19:19.
if thou shalt keep all this commandment, etc.] LXX B, etc., hear all these commandments. Cullen, p. 141, takes this passage as an actual…