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Cities
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| Deuteronomy 19:1 |
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When the LORD your God cuts off the nations,
whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in
their cities and in their houses, |
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| Deuteronomy 19:2 |
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you shall set aside three cities for yourself
in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:3 |
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You shall prepare the roads for yourself, and
divide into three parts the territory of your land which the LORD your God will
give you as a possession, so that any manslayer may flee there. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:4 |
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"Now this is the case of the manslayer who may
flee there and live: when he kills his friend unintentionally, not hating him
previously-- |
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| Deuteronomy 19:5 |
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as when a man goes into the forest with his
friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the
iron head slips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies-he may flee
to one of these cities and live; |
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| Deuteronomy 19:6 |
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otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue
the manslayer in the heat of his anger, and overtake him, because the way is long,
and take his life, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated
him previously. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:7 |
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Therefore, I command you, saying, 'You shall
set aside three cities for yourself.' |
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| Deuteronomy 19:8 |
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"If the LORD your God enlarges your territory,
just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised
to give your fathers-- |
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| Deuteronomy 19:9 |
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if you carefully observe all this commandment
which I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His ways
always--then you shall add three more cities for yourself, besides these three. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:10 |
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So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst
of your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness
be on you. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:11 |
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"But if there is a man who hates his neighbor
and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes him so that he dies,
and he flees to one of these cities, |
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| Deuteronomy 19:12 |
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then the elders of his city shall send and take
him from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he
may die. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:13 |
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You shall not pity him, but you shall purge
the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you. |
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Laws
of Landmark and Testimony |
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| Deuteronomy 19:14 |
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"You shall not move your neighbor's boundary
mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit
in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:15 |
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"A single witness shall not rise up against
a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence
of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:16 |
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If a malicious witness rises up against a man
to accuse him of wrongdoing, |
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| Deuteronomy 19:17 |
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then both the men who have the dispute shall
stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges who will be in office
in those days. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:18 |
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The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and
if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely, |
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| Deuteronomy 19:19 |
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then you shall do to him just as he had intended
to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:20 |
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The rest will hear and be afraid, and will
never again do such an evil thing among you. |
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| Deuteronomy 19:21 |
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Thus you shall not show pity: life for life,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. |
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