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Deuteronomy, Chapter 19
1 “When the LORD your God cuts off the nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses, 2 you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you toapossess. 3 You shall prepare thebroads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the LORD your God will give you as a possession,cso that any manslayer may flee there. | |
4 “Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when hedkills his friendeunintentionally,fnot hating him previously— 5 as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his handgswings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off thehhandle andistrikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live; 6 otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayerjin the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long, andktake his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously. 7 Therefore, I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside three cities for yourself.’ | |
8 “If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which Helpromised to give your fathers— 9 if youmcarefully observe all this commandment which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways always—then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three. 10 So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be on you. | |
11 “But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikesnhim so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities, 12 then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 oYou shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you. | |
14 “You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you toppossess. | |
15 “A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sinqwhich he has committed; on therevidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed. 16 If a malicious witness rises up against a man tosaccuse him oftwrongdoing, 17 then both the men who have the dispute shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who will be in office in those days. 18 The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he hasuaccused his brother falsely, 19 then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. 20 The rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you. 21 Thusvyou shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. |
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