Numbers 35:10 (BSB)

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

From Numbers 35. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 35:10

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 35:10: 10. Speak unto the children of Israel God appointed the cities of refuge, not only to make distinction between sills of malice and error, but also lest innocent blood should be rashly shed. Thus far we have seen how severely He would have murder punished: but, inasmuch as it would have been by no means just that he, who had not willfully but accidentally killed...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 35:10: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them,.... Now, directly: when ye come over Jordan into the land of Canaan; as they quickly would, being now very near it, and of which there was the utmost certainty, since the Lord had promised to bring them over that river, and put them in possession of that land.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 35:9-11: Num 35:9-11 Selection and Appointment of Cities of Refuge for Unpremeditated Manslayers. - Num 35:10, Num 35:11. When the Israelites had come into the land of Canaan, they were to choose towns conveniently situated as cities of refuge, to which the manslayer, who had slain a person (nephesh) by accident (בּשׁגגה: see at Lev 4:2), might flee.