Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan, New Living Translation Then Moses set apart three cities of refuge east of the Jordan River. English Standard Version Then Moses set apart three cities in the east beyond the Jordan, Berean Standard Bible Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east King James Bible Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising; New King James Version Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, New American Standard Bible Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east, NASB 1995 Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east, NASB 1977 Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east, Legacy Standard Bible Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east toward the sunrise, Amplified Bible Then Moses set apart three cities [of refuge] beyond the Jordan toward the rising of the sun (eastward), Christian Standard Bible Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east. Holman Christian Standard Bible Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east. American Standard Version Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; Aramaic Bible in Plain English Then Moshe separated three cities at the crossing of Jordan from the dawning of the sun; Brenton Septuagint Translation Then Moses separated three cities beyond Jordan on the east, Douay-Rheims Bible Then Moses set aside three cities beyond the Jordan at the east side, English Revised Version Then Moses separated three cities beyond Jordan toward the sunrising; GOD'S WORD® Translation Then Moses set aside three cities on the east side of the Jordan River. Good News Translation Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan River International Standard Version Then Moses designated three cities on the east side of the Jordan, JPS Tanakh 1917 Then Moses separated three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising; Literal Standard Version Then Moses separates three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sun-rising, Majority Standard Bible Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east New American Bible Then Moses set apart three cities in the region east of the Jordan, NET Bible Then Moses selected three cities in the Transjordan, toward the east. New Revised Standard Version Then Moses set apart on the east side of the Jordan three cities New Heart English Bible Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise; Webster's Bible Translation Then Moses set apart three cities on the side of Jordan, towards the sun-rising; World English Bible Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, Young's Literal Translation Then Moses separateth three cities beyond the Jordan, towards the sun-rising, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Cities of Refuge41Then Moses set aside three cities across the Jordan to the east 42to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:… Cross References Numbers 35:6 Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities. Numbers 35:14 Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge. Deuteronomy 4:42 to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one's own life, he could flee to one of these cities: Deuteronomy 19:2 then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. Joshua 20:2 "Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, Joshua 20:7 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. Treasury of Scripture Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sun rise; Numbers 35:6,14,15 And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities… Joshua 20:2-9 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: … Jump to Previous Apart Cities East Jordan Marked Moses Separated Separateth Severed Side Sunrise Sunrising Sun-Rising Three Towards TownsJump to Next Apart Cities East Jordan Marked Moses Separated Separateth Severed Side Sunrise Sunrising Sun-Rising Three Towards TownsDeuteronomy 4 1. An exhortation to obedience41. Moses appoints the three cities of refuge on that side of Jordan 44. Recapitulation THE APPOINTMENT OF THREE CITIES OF REFUGE. (41) Then Moses severed.--The word "then" appears to be a note of time. It would seem that the appointment of the three cities of refuge on the eastern side of Jordan actually followed this discourse. On this side Jordan.--Heb., b' 'eber hay-yarden. The expression is here defined by the words that follow, "toward the sun-rising," and it need not, therefore, be taken to fix the writer's point of view. By itself, the expression would naturally mean, on the other side of Jordan. (43) Bezer is as yet unidentified. Ramoth in Gilead, though famous in the history of Israel as the scene of Ahab's death and of the anointing of Jehu (1 Kings 21 and 2 Kings 9), is also as yet unknown. Golan has given a name to the district of Gaulonitis. But it is as yet also unknown. We may hope that when the survey of Eastern Palestine is concluded, these ancient sites will be recovered. Verses 41-43. - APPOINTMENT OF THREE CITIES OF REFUGE BEYOND JORDAN. A short historical notice is here inserted, probably because it was during the interval between the first and second addresses of Moses that he carried into effect the Divine command to appoint cities of refuge for the manslayer (Numbers 35:9, etc.; cf. Exodus 21:13). This notice, therefore, is here in its proper place in the order of the narrative. That Moses should, just at this stage, have made this appointment was fitting and proper, seeing he had been urging on the people obedience to the Divine statutes and commandments, and had represented their conquest of the territory of Sihon and Og as an earnest of their ultimate possession of the whole land of the Amorites. By appointing these cities, Moses gave an example of obedience to God's injunction, and, at the same time, not only asserted on the part of Israel a right of proprietorship in this trans-Jordanic territory, but assumed as certain that, on the ether side of Jordan also, the same right of proprietorship should be possessed and exercised by Israel in the fulfilling of the whole law concerning cities of refuge (cf. Deuteronomy 19:1, etc.). That this section belongs properly to Numbers 35, 36, and has been interpolated here by some later hand, is a pure assumption, for which there is no ground. Verse 41. - On this side Jordan; beyond Jordan, more expressly defined as toward the sun rising, viz. on the east of that river. |
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