GOD'S WORD Translation GW
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40 Obey his laws and commands which I'm giving you today. Then things will go well for you and your descendants. You will live for a long time in the land. The LORD your God is giving you the land for as long as you live.
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Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the LORD your God gives you for all time.
41 Then Moses set aside three cities on the east side of the Jordan River.
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Then Moses set aside three cities east of the Jordan,
42 Those who unintentionally killed someone whom they had never hated could flee to one of these cities and save their lives.
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to which anyone who had killed a person could flee if they had unintentionally killed a neighbor without malice aforethought. They could flee into one of these cities and save their life.
43 The cities were Bezer on the desert plateau for the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead for the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan for the tribe of Manasseh.
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The cities were these: Bezer in the wilderness plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
44 This is what Moses taught the people of Israel.
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This is the law Moses set before the Israelites.
45 These are the commandments, laws, and rules Moses gave the Israelites after they had left Egypt.
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These are the stipulations, decrees and laws Moses gave them when they came out of Egypt
46 He gave these to the people when they were east of the Jordan River in the valley near Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon. Moses and Israel defeated him after they left Egypt.
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and were in the valley near Beth Peor east of the Jordan, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites as they came out of Egypt.
47 They took possession of his land and the land of King Og of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites who were east of the Jordan River.
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They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan.
48 This land went from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley to Mount Siyon (that is, Mount Hermon).
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This land extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge to Mount Sirion (that is, Hermon),
49 It included all the plains on the east side of the Jordan River as far as the Dead Sea at the foot of the slopes of Mount Pisgah.
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and included all the Arabah east of the Jordan, as far as the Dead Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah.
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