Deuteronomy 19:1
When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
2 then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
3 You are to build roads for yourselves and divide into three regions the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that any manslayer can flee to these cities.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
- KJV
- When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
- WEB
- When the LORD your God cuts off the nations whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
- ASV
- When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
- DARBY
- When Jehovah thy God hath cut off the nations whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou hast dispossessed them, and dwellest in their cities and in their houses,
- BLB
- When YHWH your God has cut off the nations whose land YHWH your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
- ÅB
- Når Herren din Gud utrydder de folk hvis land Herren din Gud gir deg, og du driver dem ut og bor i deres byer og i deres huser,
- OTB
- Når Herren din Gud har utryddet de folkene hvis land Han gir deg, og du har fordrevet dem og bosatt deg i deres byer og hus,
- B1930
- Når Herren din Gud utrydder de folk hvis land Herren din Gud gir dig, og du driver dem ut og bor i deres byer og i deres huser,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 12:29
When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:10
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 7:1–2
When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
Read in contextDeuteronomy 17:14
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 12:1
These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
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