Deuteronomy 19:2

19:2 you must set apart for yourselves three cities ¹  in the middle of your land that the Lord your God is giving you as a possession.

Deuteronomy 28:52

28:52 They will besiege all of your villages ²  until all of your high and fortified walls collapse – those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 19:3

19:3 You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent ³  of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.

Deuteronomy 19:10

19:10 You must not shed innocent blood ⁴  in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 28:24

28:24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; it will come down on you from the sky until you are destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:12

28:12 The Lord will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; ⁶  you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.

¹ sn These three cities, later designated by Joshua, were Kedesh of Galilee, Shechem, and Hebron (Josh 20:7-9).

² tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.

³ tn Heb “border.”

⁴ tn Heb “innocent blood must not be shed.” The Hebrew phrase דָּם נָקִי (dam naqiy) means the blood of a person to whom no culpability or responsibility adheres because what he did was without malice aforethought (HALOT 224 s.v דָּם 4.b).

⁵ tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”

⁵ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”