Catholic Public Domain Version
"you shall separate for yourselves three cities in the midst of the land, which the Lord will give to you as a possession, "
— Deuteronomy 19:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.”
“thou shalt set apart three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it. ”
“you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.”
“you must set apart for yourselves three cities in the middle of your land that the LORD your God is giving you as a possession.”
“Thou shalt separate to thee three cities in the midst of the land, which the Lord will give thee in possession,”
“You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.”
“Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.”
“When the Lord your God will have destroyed the nations, whose land he will deliver to you, and when you possess it and live in its cities and buildings,
you shall separate for yourselves three cities in the midst of the land, which the Lord will give to you as a possession,
paving the road carefully. And you shall divide the entire province of your land equally into three parts, so that he who is forced to flee because of manslaughter may have a place nearby to which he may be able to escape.
This shall be the law of the killer who flees, whose life is to be saved. Whoever strikes down his neighbor unwillingly, and who has been proven to have had no hatred against him yesterday and the day before,
such that he had gone with him into the forest simply to cut wood, and in cutting down the tree, the axe slipped from his hand, or the iron slipped from the handle, and it struck his friend and killed him: he shall flee to one of the cities stated above, and he shall live.