Deuteronomio 19:9

9 deberás designar otras tres ciudades de refugio adicionales. (Él te dará esa tierra si te aseguras de obedecer todos los mandatos que te di, es decir, si siempre amas al Señor
tu Dios y andas en sus caminos).

Deuteronomio 19:9 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 19:9

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I
command thee this day
A phrase often met with before, and signifies the putting in practice the several laws, moral, ceremonial, and judicial, which Moses was now making a repetition of, and enjoining the observance of them by a divine authority:

to love the Lord thy God;
which is the source and spring of genuine obedience to the commands of God:

and to walk ever in his ways;
noting constancy and perseverance in them; now all this is mentioned as the condition of the enlargement of their coast, which would be the case if a due and constant regard was had to the laws of God:

and then shall thou add three cities more besides these three;
three more in the land of Canaan, besides the three now ordered to be separated in it, and besides the three on the other side of Jordan; so that there would have been nine in all, if these had been ever added; but that time never came: the Jews expect the addition of these three cities in the days of the Messiah ^F25 but the Messiah is already come, and all those cities, as they were typical of him, have had their accomplishment in him the antitype of them, of which (See Gill on Numbers 35:29).

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Maimon. Hilchot Rotzeach, c. 8. sect. 4.

Deuteronomio 19:9 In-Context

7 Por esa razón, te ordeno que apartes tres ciudades de refugio.

8 »Si el Señor
tu Dios extiende tu territorio como les juró a tus antepasados y te entrega toda la tierra que les prometió,

9 deberás designar otras tres ciudades de refugio adicionales. (Él te dará esa tierra si te aseguras de obedecer todos los mandatos que te di, es decir, si siempre amas al Señor
tu Dios y andas en sus caminos).

10 De esa manera, evitarás que mueran personas inocentes en la tierra que el Señor
tu Dios te da como tu preciada posesión. Entonces no serás responsable de la muerte de inocentes.

11 »Pero supongamos que alguien está enemistado con un vecino y le tiende una emboscada a propósito y lo mata, y luego huye a una de las ciudades de refugio.