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DEUTERONOMY
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Chapter 19
Deut AKJV 19:1  When the LORD your God has cut off the nations, whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
Deut AKJV 19:2  You shall separate three cities for you in the middle of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
Deut AKJV 19:3  You shall prepare you a way, and divide the coasts of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
Deut AKJV 19:4  And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;
Deut AKJV 19:5  As when a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lights on his neighbor, that he die; he shall flee to one of those cities, and live:
Deut AKJV 19:6  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.
Deut AKJV 19:7  Why I command you, saying, You shall separate three cities for you.
Deut AKJV 19:8  And if the LORD your God enlarge your coast, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
Deut AKJV 19:9  If you shall keep all these commandments to do them, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, beside these three:
Deut AKJV 19:10  That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
Deut AKJV 19:11  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 flees into one of these cities:
Deut AKJV 19:12  Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
Deut AKJV 19:13  Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
Deut AKJV 19:14  You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
Deut AKJV 19:15  One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
Deut AKJV 19:16  If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
Deut AKJV 19:17  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;
Deut AKJV 19:18  And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;
Deut AKJV 19:19  Then shall you do to him, as he had thought to have done to his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you.
Deut AKJV 19:20  And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall from now on commit no more any such evil among you.
Deut AKJV 19:21  And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.