Deuteronomy 19
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"When the LORD your God a has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
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b "you shall separate three cities for yourself in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
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"You shall prepare roads for yourself, and divide into three parts the territory of your land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, that any manslayer may flee there.
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"And c this is the case of the manslayer who flees there, that he may live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, not having hated him in time past -
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"as when a man goes to the woods with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings a stroke with the ax to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies - he shall flee to one of these cities and live;
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d "lest the avenger of blood, while his anger is hot, pursue the manslayer and overtake him, because the way is long, and kill him, though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated the victim in time past.
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"Therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall separate three cities for yourself.'
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"Now if the LORD your God e enlarges your territory, as He swore to f your fathers, and gives you the land which He promised to give to your fathers,
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"and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the LORD your God and to walk always in His ways, g then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three,
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h "lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.
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"But i if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities,
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"then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
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j "Your eye shall not pity him, k but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
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l "You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
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m "One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established.
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"If a false witness n rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,
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"then both men in the controversy shall stand before the LORD, o before the priests and the judges who serve in those days.
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"And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother,
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p "then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so q you shall put away the evil from among you.
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r "And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you.
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s "Your eye shall not pity: t life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:29
When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land.
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Cross References
Exodus 21:13
However, if he did not lie in wait, but God delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
Numbers 35:10 - 15
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan.
Deuteronomy 4:41
Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.
Joshua 20:2
Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through Moses.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:9 - 34
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying.
Deuteronomy 4:42
That the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
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Cross References
Numbers 35:12
They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment.
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Deuteronomy 12:20
When the LORD your God enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, 'Let me eat meat,' because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires.
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Genesis 15:18 - 21
On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates -
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Joshua 20:7 - 9
So they appointed Kedesh in Galilee, in the mountains of Naphtali, Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and Kirjath Arba (which is Hebron) in the mountains of Judah.
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Numbers 35:33
So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
Deuteronomy 21:1 - 9
If anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:16
But if he strikes him with an iron implement, so that he dies, he is a murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:24
Then the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments.
Deuteronomy 27:24
'Cursed is the one who attacks his neighbor secretly.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
1 John 3:15
Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
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Deuteronomy 13:8
You shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him.
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Numbers 35:33
So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
Numbers 35:34
'Therefore do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.'"
1 Kings 2:31
Then the king said to him, "Do as he has said, and strike him down and bury him, that you may take away from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood which Joab shed.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17
'Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor's landmark.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
Job 24:2
Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on them.
Proverbs 22:28
Do not remove the ancient landmark Which your fathers have set.
Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:30
Whoever kills a person, the murderer shall be p...
Deuteronomy 17:6
Whoever is deserving of death shall be put to d...
Matthew 18:16
"But if he will not hear, take with you one or ...
John 8:17
It is also written in your law that the testimo...
2 Corinthians 13:1
This will be the third time I am coming to you....
1 Timothy 5:19
Do not receive an accusation against an elder e...
Hebrews 10:28
Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without...
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Cross References
Exodus 23:1
You shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
Psalms 27:12
Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.
Psalms 35:11
Fierce witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:8 - 11
If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.
Deuteronomy 21:5
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of the LORD; by their word every controversy and every assault shall be settled.
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Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who speaks lies will not escape.
Daniel 6:24
And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions - them, their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den.
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Deuteronomy 13:5
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put away the evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 17:7
The hands of the witnesses shall be the first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 21:21
Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
Deuteronomy 22:21
Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So you shall put away the evil from among you.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:13
And all the people shall hear and fear, and no longer act presumptuously.
Deuteronomy 21:21
Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 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.
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Exodus 21:23
But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life.
Exodus 21:24
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Leviticus 24:20
Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused disfigurement of a man, so shall it be done to him.
Matthew 5:38
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
Matthew 5:39
But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.
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