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What does Deuteronomy 19:2 mean?
"you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it."
— Deuteronomy 19:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations whose land Yahweh your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses;
you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
You shall prepare the way, and divide the borders of your land which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit into three parts, that every man slayer may flee there.
This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live. Whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and didn’t hate him in time past;
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood and his hand swings the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and hits his neighbor so that he dies, he shall flee to one of these cities and live.
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