Deuteronomy:19:1-14
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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 ,
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three cities ,
shalt thou set apart for thee ,
in the midst of thy land which Yahweh thy God is giving thee to possess .
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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 .
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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 ;
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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 ;
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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 .
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For this cause ,
am I commanding thee saying ,
Three cities ,
shalt thou set apart for thee .
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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 ;
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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 ;
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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 .
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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 ,
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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 ;
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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 .
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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 .
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