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		Deut 19:1 "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,
		Deut 19:2 you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess.
		Deut 19:3 "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.
		Deut 19:4 ¶ "Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live: when he kills his friend unintentionally, not hating him previously--
		Deut 19:5 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;
		Deut 19:6 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.
		Deut 19:7 "Therefore, I command you, saying, 'You shall set aside three cities for yourself.'
		Deut 19:8 ¶ "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--
		Deut 19:9 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.
		Deut 19:10 "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.
		Deut 19:11 ¶ "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,
		Deut 19:12 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.
		Deut 19:13 "You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.
		Deut 19:14 ¶ "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.
		Deut 19:15 ¶ "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.
		Deut 19:16 "If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,
		Deut 19:17 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.
		Deut 19:18 "The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is a false witness and he has accused his brother falsely,
		Deut 19:19 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.
		Deut 19:20 "The rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you.
		Deut 19:21 "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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