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Deuteronomy 4:42-44
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 4:42-44
New Catholic Bible
42 to which anyone who unintentionally killed another person with whom he had not previously been at enmity might flee. He could flee to one of these cities and save his life. 43 They were Bezer,[a] on the desert plateau, for the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan for the men of Manasseh.
Moses’ Second Address
The Covenant with Israel[b]
44 Introduction. This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
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- Deuteronomy 4:43 Bezer: perhaps Umm el-Aniad, to the east of Mount Nebo; Ramoth: perhaps Tell Ramit, east of the Jordan between the Jabbok and Yarmuk Rivers; Golan: perhaps Sahem el-Giolan, east of the Lake of Gennesaret.
- Deuteronomy 4:44 This discourse existed, in great part, in the first edition of the book. The author hides behind the authority of Moses as he urges Israel to live the covenant to the full.
