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Deuteronomy 4:41

in Deuteronomy 4

Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;

KJV

Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;

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This verse in Deuteronomy 4

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
These verses are inserted between two distinct and complete discourses for the reason to which they themselves call attention (“Then Moses severed three cities,” etc.); i. e., the fact narrated took place historically after Moses spoke the one discourse and before he delivered the other. In thus severing the three cities of refuge Moses carried out a previous command of God (see the marginal references); and so followed up his exhortations to obedience by setting a punctual example of it, as far as opportunity was given him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Then Moses severed three cities,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

These are the testimonies, the statutes, and the judgments, the moral, ceremonial, and judicial laws, which had been enacted before, when Israel had newly come out of Egypt, and were now repeated, on this side Jordan,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Then Moses severed three cities - See the law relative to the cities of refuge explained, Num 35:11 (note), etc.

The words behind it

9 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אָ֣זthen

    ʾazH227 →

  • יַבְדִּ֤ילhe set apart

    yavdilH914 →42 times

  • מֹשֶׁה֙Moses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

  • שָׁלֹ֣שׁthree

    shaloshH7969 →432 times

  • עָרִ֔יםcities

    ʾarimH5892 →1090 times

  • בְּעֵ֖בֶרon [the] other side of

    beeverH5676 →90 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • מִזְרְחָ֖ה[the] rising of towards

    mizrechahH4217 →74 times

  • שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃[the] sun

    shameshH8121 →134 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 35:6

    Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 21:13

      So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,

    • Joshua 21:3

      So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:

    • Psalms 9:9

      The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

    • Joshua 21:21

      From the tribe of Ephraim they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,

    • Joshua 21:38

      And from the tribe of Gad they were given Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim,

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 4 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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