NET Bible
"If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,"
— Deuteronomy 19:8, NET Bible
“And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;”
“And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers; ”
“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;”
“And when the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he swore to the fathers, and shall give thee all the land that he promised them,”
“And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;”
“And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;”
Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.
Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.
Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.
If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
and then you are careful to observe all these commandments I am giving you today(namely, to love the LORD your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities to these three.
You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.