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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;
02 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in
the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God
giveth thee to possess it.
03 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the
coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth
thee to inherit, into three parts, that every
slayer may flee thither.
04 And this is the case of the slayer, which
shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso
killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated
not in time past;
05 As when a man goeth into the wood with his
neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a
stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the
head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon
his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto
one of those cities, and live:
06 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.
07 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt
separate three cities for thee.
08 And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast, as
he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all
the land which he promised to give unto thy
fathers;
09 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,
beside these three:
10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land,
which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
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11 But if any man hate his
neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up
against him, and smite him mortally that he die,
and fleeth into one of these cities:
12 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.
13 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt
put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel,
that it may go well with thee.
14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's
landmark, which they of old time have set in
thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in
the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to
possess it.
15 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.
16 If a false witness rise up against any man to
testify against him that which is wrong;
17 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;
18 And the judges shall make diligent
inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a
false witness, and hath testified falsely against
his brother;
19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought
to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put
the evil away from among you.
20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear,
and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil
among you.
21 And thine 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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