Deuteronomy:19

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* When Yahweh thy God , shall cut off the nations whose land Yahweh thy God is giving thee , and thou shalt dispossess them , and dwell in their cities and in their houses , * three cities , shalt thou set apart for thee , in the midst of thy land which Yahweh thy God is giving thee to possess . * Thou shalt prepare for thee a way , and shalt divide into three parts the boundary of thy land which Yahweh thy God shall cause thee to inherit , and it shall be that every manslayer shall flee thither . * And , this , is the case of the manslayer , who shall flee thither and live , Whoso shall smite his neighbour unwittingly , he , not having hated him aforetime ; * as when one entereth with his neighbour into a forest , to fell trees , and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe , to cut down the tree , and the head flieth off from the handle , and lighteth upon his neighbour , that he die , he , shall flee into one of these cities , and live ; * lest the blood redeemer pursue the manslayer because his heart is hot , and overtake him because the way is long , and he smite him so as to take away his life , he not being worthy of death , seeing that he had not been hating him aforetime . * For this cause , am I commanding thee saying , Three cities , shalt thou set apart for thee . * But , if Yahweh thy God should enlarge thy heralds , as he aware unto thy fathers , and should give thee all the land , which he spake of giving unto thy fathers ; * because thou dost observe all this commandment to do it which I am commanding thee to-day , to love Yahweh thy God and to walk in his paths all the days , then shalt thou add unto thee yet three cities , unto these three ; * that innocent blood may not be sired in the midst of thy land , which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee as an inheritance , and so shed-blood be upon thee . * But , when any man shall be hating his neighbour , and shall lie in wait for him and rise up against him , and smite him so as to take away his life that he dieth , and shall then flee into one of these cities , * then shall the elders of his city send and fetch him from thence , and deliver him into the hand of the blood redeemer that he die ; * thine eye shall not look with pity upon him , so shall thou consume the shedding of innocent blood out of Israel and it shah go well with thee . * Thou shall not move back the boundary of thy neighbour , by which they set bounds at first , in thine inheritance which thou shall receive in the land which Yahweh thy God is giving thee to possess . * One witness I shall not rise up , against a man for any iniquity , or for any sin , with regard to any sin that he may commit , at the mouth of two witnesses or at the mouth of three witnesses , must a matter be establish . * When there shall rise up a wrongful witness against a man , to answer against him perversely , * then shall the two men who are at variance stand before Yahweh , before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days ; * and the judges shall make diligent inquisition , and lo ! if the witness be , a false witness and , falsely , have answered against his brother , * then shall ye do unto him as he had thought to de unto his brother , so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of thy midst ; * and , they who remain shall hear and fear , and not go on to do again according to this wicked thing , in thy midst : * neither shall thine eye pity , life for life , eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot .

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