Deuteronomy 4:39-41

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³⁹know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. ⁴⁰Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, 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 ever.”^[a]

Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan

⁴¹^[b]Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan,

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Footnotes

4.32-40 This passage gives the clearest and most eloquent expression of Israel’s consciousness of its election as the people of God.
4.41 The beginning of the second discourse of Moses containing the Deuteronomic version of the Ten Commandments; cf. Ex 20.1-17.

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