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Chapter 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; |
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Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst
of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess
it. |
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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. |
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And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee
thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbor ignorantly,
whom he hated not in time past; |
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As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor 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 neighbor, that he die; he shall flee
unto one of those cities, and live: |
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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. |
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Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate
three cities for thee. |
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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; |
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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: |
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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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But if any man hate his neighbor, 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: |
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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. |
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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. |
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Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor'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. |
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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. |
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If a false witness rise up against any man to testify
against him that which is wrong; |
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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; |
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And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and,
behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified
falsely against his brother; |
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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. |
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And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall
henceforth commit no more any such evil among you. |
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And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. |
