Deuteronomy:19:1-14

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* When Jehovah your God shall cut off the nations whose land Jehovah your God is giving to you , and when you take their place , and live in their cities , and in their houses , * you shall separate three cities for you in the midst of your land , which Jehovah your God is giving you to possess it . * You shall prepare the way for yourself , and shall divide into three parts the border of your land which Jehovah your God shall cause you to inherit , so that every manslayer may flee there . * And this is the case of the manslayer who shall flee there , that he may live : whoever strikes his neighbor unawares , and has not hated him yesterday and the day before ; * even he who goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood , and his hand brings a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree , and the iron head slips from the wood and finds his neighbor so that he dies ; he shall flee to one of these cities , and shall live ; * that the avenger of blood not pursue the manslayer when his heart is hot , and shall overtake him because the way is long , and shall strike the life from him , and he had no sentence of death , for he did not hate him yesterday or the day before . * On account of this I am commanding you , saying , You shall separate to yourself three cities . * And if Jehovah your God shall enlarge your border , as He has sworn to your fathers , and shall give to you all the land which He has spoken to give to your fathers , * if you will keep these commandments which I am commanding you today , to love Jehovah your God , and to walk in His ways forever , then you shall add to yourself another three cities to these three . * And innocent blood shall not be shed in the midst of your land , which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance , and there be blood on you . * And if a man hates his neighbor , and lies in wait for him , and rises up against him , and strikes his life from him , so that he dies , and flees to one of these cities , * then the elders of his city shall send and bring from him there , and give him into the hand of the avenger of blood , that he may die . * Your eye shall not pity him , but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel , and it shall be well with you . * You may not remove your neighbor 's landmark , which those formerly have set in your inheritance , which you shall inherit in the land which Jehovah your God is giving you , to possess it .

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