Deuteronomy 19:9

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.”

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BSBPD

“and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“If 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:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“if thou shalt keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besides these three:”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“when thou keepest all this command to do it, which I am commanding thee to-day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in His ways all the days--then thou hast added to thee yet three cities to these three;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 19:9 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 11:22For if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you to follow—to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him—
  2. Deuteronomy 12:32See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
  3. Joshua 20:7So 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.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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