9If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. …
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-13)It was one of the precepts given to the sons of Noah that whoso sheddeth man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed , that is, by the avenger of blood, Gen. 9:6. Now here we have the law settled between blood and blood, between the blood of the murdered and the blood of the murderer, and effectual provision made, I. That the cities of refuge should be a protection to him that slew another casually…
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