You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, that any manslayer may flee there.

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Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities.

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Healing for the Backslider

14 And one shall say,
(A)“Heap it up! Heap it up!
Prepare the way,
Take the stumbling block out of the way of My people.”

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Comfort for the Contrite

14 And it will be said:

“Build up, build up, prepare the road!(A)
    Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”(B)

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13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

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13 “Make level paths for your feet,”[a](A) so that the lame may not be disabled, but rather healed.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:13 Prov. 4:26

10 Go through,
Go through the gates!
(A)Prepare the way for the people;
Build up,
Build up the highway!
Take out the stones,
(B)Lift up a banner for the peoples!

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10 Pass through, pass through the gates!(A)
    Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!(B)
    Remove the stones.
Raise a banner(C) for the nations.

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A (A)highway shall be there, and a road,
And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
(B)The unclean shall not pass over it,
But it shall be for others.
Whoever walks the road, although a fool,
Shall not go astray.

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And a highway(A) will be there;
    it will be called the Way of Holiness;(B)
    it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean(C) will not journey on it;
    wicked fools will not go about on it.

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