Deuteronomy:19:1-13

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* When Yahweh your God will cut off the nations , whose land Yahweh your God gives you , and you succeed them , and dwell in their cities , and in their houses ; * you will set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land , which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it . * You will prepare for yourself the way , and divide the borders of your land , which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit , into three parts , that every manslayer may flee there . * And this is the case of the manslayer , that will flee there and live : whoever kills his fellow man unawares , and did not hate him in time past ; * as when a man goes into the forest with his fellow man to cut wood , and his hand fetches a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree , and the head slips from the handle , and hits his fellow man , so that he dies ; he will flee to one of these cities and live : * or else if the avenger of blood pursues the manslayer , while his heart is hot , and overtakes him , because the way is long , and strikes him mortally ; whereas he wasn 't worthy of death , inasmuch as he did not hate him in time past . * Therefore I command you , saying , You will set apart three cities for yourself . * And if Yahweh your God enlarges your border , as he has sworn to your fathers , and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers ; * if you will keep all [of ] this commandment to do it , which I command you this day , to love Yahweh your God , and to walk ever in his ways ; then you will add three more cities for yourself , besides these three : * that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land , which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance , and so blood will be on you . * But if any man hates his fellow man , and lies in wait for him , and rises up against him , and strikes him mortally so that he dies , and he flees into one of these cities ; * then the elders of his city will send and fetch him from there , and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood , that he may die . * Your eye will not pity him , but you will put away the innocent blood from Israel , that it may go well with you .

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