Deuteronomy 4:41 BSB

Deuteronomy 4:41

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אָ֣ז	'az	then	H227 →
יַבְדִּ֤יל	yav.Dil	he set apart	H914 →
מֹשֶׁה֙	mo.Sheh	Moses	H4872 →
שָׁלֹ֣שׁ	sha.Losh	three	H7969 →
עָרִ֔ים	'a.Rim	cities	H5892 →
בְּעֵ֖בֶר	be.'E.ver	on [the] other side of	H5676 →
הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ן	hai.yar.Den	the Jordan	H3383 →
מִזְרְחָ֖ה	miz.re.Chah	[the] rising of towards	H4217 →
שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃	Sha.mesh	[the] sun	H8121 →

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The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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.
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,