Numbers 35:14

Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.

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KJV

Ye shall give three cities on this side Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan, which shall be cities of refuge.

ASV

Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

YLT

the three of the cities ye give beyond the Jordan, and the three of the cities ye give in the land of Canaan; cities of refuge they are.

DBT

Three cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

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Ye shall give three cites on this side Jordan,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Related commentary

On this side Jordan - Because that land was as long as Canaan, though not so broad, and besides these might be convenient for many of them that lived in Canaan.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical

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Deuteronomy 4:41
Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east
Proverbs 28:17
A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.
Deuteronomy 19:8–10
And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as He swore to your fathers, and gives you all the land He promised them,
Joshua 20:7–9
So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

Who & where

PlaceThe LevantCanaanThe land of promise — walked and altar-marked by the patriarchs but not yet possessed.

About this book

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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