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Increase the Cities of Refuge

“Now if the Lord enlarges your territories just as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land that he promised,[a] and if you are careful to observe all these commands that I am commanding you today—to love the Lord your God and to walk daily in his ways—then add three more cities in addition to these three cities. 10 You must not shed innocent blood on your land that the Lord your God is about to give you as an inheritance. Otherwise, you’ll be guilty of murder.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 19:8 Lit. promised to give your ancestors