If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to dwell there, saying,
KJV
If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
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If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities,.... A report concerning them, anyone of them:
which the Lord thy God had given thee to dwell there; which he had not only given them, but had put them into the possession of, and it was become their dwelling place, or was inhabited by Israelites; otherwise they were already given unto them, but did not inherit and inhabit them, and it might be possible that there might be some city or cities, at least for a time, which, though given them, were not inhabited by them, but by the Canaanites, and such cities this law did not concern: saying; as follows.
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