World English Bible
"Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves."
— Deuteronomy 19:7, World English Bible
“Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.”
“Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt set apart three cities for thee. ”
“Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.”
“Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities at equal distance one from another.”
“And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.”
“Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.”
This is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him in time past;
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for yourselves.
If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:
that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.