Deuteronomy:19

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* When the LORD your God has cut off the nations , whose land the LORD your God gives you , and you succeed them , and dwell in their cities , and in their houses ; * You shall separate three cities for you in the midst of your land , which the LORD your God gives you to possess it . * You shall prepare you a way , and divide the coasts of your land , which the LORD your God gives you to inherit , into three parts , that every slayer may flee thither . * And this is the case of the slayer , which shall flee thither , that he may live : Whoso kills his neighbour ignorantly , whom he hated not in time past ; * As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood , and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree , and the head slips from the wooden handle , and lights upon his neighbour , that he die ; he shall flee unto one of those cities , and live : * Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer , while his heart is hot , and overtake him , because the way is long , and slay him ; whereas he was not worthy of death , inasmuch as he hated him not in time past . * Wherefore I command you , saying , You shall separate three cities for you . * And if the LORD your God enlarge your coast , as he has sworn unto your fathers , and give you all the land which he promised to give unto your fathers ; * If you shall keep all these commandments to do them , which I command you this day , to love the LORD your God , and to walk ever in his ways ; then shall you add three cities more for you , beside these three : * That innocent blood be not shed in your land , which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance , and so blood be upon you . * But if any man hate his neighbour , and lie in wait for him , and rise up against him , and strike him mortally that he die , and flees into one of these cities : * Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence , and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood , that he may die . * Yours eye shall not pity him , but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel , that it may go well with you . * You shall not remove your neighbour 's landmark , which they of old time have set in yours inheritance , which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it . * One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity , or for any sin , in any sin that he sins : at the mouth of two witnesses , or at the mouth of three witnesses , shall the matter be established . * If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong ; * Then both the men , between whom the controversy is , shall stand before the LORD , before the priests and the judges , which shall be in those days ; * And the judges shall make diligent inquisition : and , behold , if the witness be a false witness , and has testified falsely against his brother ; * Then shall all of you do unto him , as he had thought to have done unto his brother : so shall you put the evil away from among you . * And those which remain shall hear , and fear , and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you . * And yours eye shall not pity ; but life shall go for life , eye for eye , tooth for tooth , hand for hand , foot for foot .

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