Deuteronomy:19

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* When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations , whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee , and thou succeedest them , and dwellest in their cities , and in their houses ; * Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it . * Thou shalt prepare thee a way , and divide the limits of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit , into three parts , that every slayer may flee thither . * And this is the case of the slayer , who shall flee thither , that he may live : Whoever killeth his neighbor ignorantly , whom he hated not in time past ; * As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood , and his hand maketh a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree , and the head slippeth from the helve , and falleth upon his neighbor , that he dieth : he shall flee to one of these cities , and live : * Lest the avenger of blood shall 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 thee , saying , Thou shalt separate three cities for thee . * And if the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy limits , as he hath sworn to thy fathers , and give thee all the land which he promised to give to thy fathers ; * If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them , which I command thee this day , to love the LORD thy God , and to walk ever in his ways ; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee , besides these three : * That innocent blood may not be shed in thy land , which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance , and so blood be upon thee . * But if any man shall hate his neighbor , and lie in wait for him , and rise up against him , and smite him mortally , that he dieth , and he shall flee into one of these cities : * Then the elders of his city shall send and bring him thence , and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood , that he may die . * Thy eye shall not pity him , but thou shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel , that it may be well with thee . * Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor 's landmark , which they of old time have set in thy inheritance , which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it . * One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity , or for any sin , in any sin that he sinneth ; at the mouth of two witnesses , or at the mouth of three witnesses , shall the matter be established . * If a false witness shall 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 , who shall be in those days ; * And the judges shall make diligent inquisition : and behold , if the witness is a false witness , and hath testified falsely against his brother ; * Then shall ye do to him , as he had thought to do to his brother : so shalt thou remove the evil from among you . * And those who remain shall hear , and fear , and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you . * And thy 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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