DEUTERONOMY 19:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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:”
But if you willfully disobey this entire commandment by not setting apart the three cities, then the LORD your God will enlarge your territory, as he swore to your ancestors — the conditional if you willfully disobey frames the cities-of-refuge system as non-negotiable; the consequence of refusal is that territory expansion will proceed, but without the protective institutions, making enlarged territory a burden rather than blessing.
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