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42 in order for a manslayer[a] to flee there who has killed his neighbor without intent[b] and was not hating him previously,[c] and so he could flee to one of these cities and be safe.[d] 43 He set apart Bezer in the wilderness[e] in the land of the plateau of the Reubenites;[f] Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites,[g] and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites.[h]

44 Now this is the law[i] that Moses set before[j] the Israelites;[k]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:42 Literally “a killer of a man”
  2. Deuteronomy 4:42 Literally “without previous knowledge”
  3. Deuteronomy 4:42 Literally “the day before yesterday”
  4. Deuteronomy 4:42 Literally “and live”
  5. Deuteronomy 4:43 Or “desert”
  6. Deuteronomy 4:43 Hebrew “Reubenite”
  7. Deuteronomy 4:43 Hebrew “Gadite”
  8. Deuteronomy 4:43 Hebrew “Manassite”
  9. Deuteronomy 4:44 Hebrew “the torah” = teaching, instruction, law
  10. Deuteronomy 4:44 Literally “before the faces of”
  11. Deuteronomy 4:44 Literally “sons/children of Israel”