Deuteronomy 4:41

The Narrative Concerning Cities of Refuge

4:41 Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east.

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 19:7

19:7 Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

Deuteronomy 19:12

19:12 The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger ²  to die.

Deuteronomy 20:10

20:10 When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.

Deuteronomy 21:2

21:2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse. ³ 

Deuteronomy 21:19

21:19 his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

Deuteronomy 22:23

22:23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets ⁴  her in the city and has sexual relations with ⁵  her,

Deuteronomy 25:8

25:8 Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, “I don’t want to marry her,”

Deuteronomy 34:3

34:3 the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

[19:2]  ¹ sn These three cities, later designated by Joshua, were Kedesh of Galilee, Shechem, and Hebron (Josh 20:7-9).

[19:12]  ¹ tn The גֹאֵל הַדָּם (go’el haddam, “avenger of blood”) would ordinarily be a member of the victim’s family who, after due process of law, was invited to initiate the process of execution (cf. Num 35:16-28). See R. Hubbard, NIDOTTE 1:789-94.

[21:2]  ¹ tn Heb “surrounding the slain [one].”

[22:23]  ¹ tn Heb “finds.”

[22:23]  ² tn Heb “lies with.”