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8 And when the LORD your God shall enlarge your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers; 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 in his ways always; then you shall add three cities more for you besides these three; 10 That innocent blood may not be shed in the land which the LORD your God gives you, and that the guilt of innocent blood not be upon you. 11 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and attack him, and smite him mortally so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities; 12 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall slay him. 13 Your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall kill him, and thus purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you. 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. 15 A single witness shall not rise up against a man for any offense, or for any crime, in whatever offense or crime he may commit; on the testimony of two witnesses, or on the testimony of three witnesses, shall a charge be established. 16 If a false witness rise up against any man, and 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 who shall be in those days; 18 And the judges shall investigate the case diligently; and, behold, if the witness has deliberately testified falsely against his brother; 19 Then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother; so shall you put the evil away from among you. 20 And those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall never again commit any such an evil thing among you. 21 And your eye shall not pity; but life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Deuteronomy 19:8-21, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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