EXTRA · Side-ring · Parashas Shoftim · Passuk 19:01
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When the Eternal your God cuts off the nations whose land the Eternal your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
Chazal / classical source (beyond TT-numbered main-ring units): Sifrei Devarim 180.
Lemma: כִּי יַכְרִית ה׳ אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֶת הַגּוֹיִם.
English: ‘When the Eternal your God cuts off the nations’ – after the inheritance.
Derash on the timing of the command (Sifrei) — the obligation of the cities of refuge follows the conquest and settlement.
The command to prepare cities of refuge is set in the context of the completed dispossession and settlement of the Land.