1. A. Aharoni, The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography (London: Burns & Oates, 1974), 375 & 377.
2. Wright, 60. Similarly, Christensen feels that one "cannot help but feel the jarring effect of encountering a totally different type of content as one moves from v 40 to v 41," (Deuteronomy 1:1-21:9, 99).
3. E.g., Driver, 78; von Rad, 51; Mayes, 159; Nelson, 72; Phillips, 39.
4. On the meaning of the cities of refuge, see comments on 19:1-13 below.