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Deuteronomy 4:42 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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: "

Deuteronomy 4:42

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40 You shall keep his statutes and his commandments which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the LORD your God gives you for all time.

41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,

42 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:

43 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.

44 This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

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Deuteronomy 19:4

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"This 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—"

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Deuteronomy 19:11

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"But if any man hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises up against him, strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;"

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Numbers 35:11

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"then 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."

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Numbers 35:26

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"“‘But if the man slayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge where he flees,"

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Joshua 20:3

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"that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood."

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Joshua 20:6

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"He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the man slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.’”"

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Deuteronomy 4:1

"Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them, that you may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, gives you."

Deuteronomy 4:2

"You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you."

Deuteronomy 4:3

"Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baal Peor; for the LORD your God has destroyed all the men who followed Baal Peor from among you."

Deuteronomy 4:4

"But you who were faithful to the LORD your God are all alive today."

Deuteronomy 4:5

"Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it."

Deuteronomy 4:6

"Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”"

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