19:9 and then you are careful to observe all these commandments19 I am giving20 you today (namely, to love the Lord your God and to always walk in his ways), then you must add three more cities21 to these three.
tn Heb “all this commandment.” This refers here to the entire covenant agreement of the Book of Deuteronomy as encapsulated in the Shema (Deut 6:4–5).
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tnHeb “commanding”; NAB “which I enjoin on you today.”
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snYou will add three more cities. Since these are alluded to nowhere else and thus were probably never added, this must be a provision for other cities of refuge should they be needed (cf. v. 8). See P. C. Craigie, Deuteronomy (NICOT), 267.