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Deuteronomy 19 📜 📕 ↷
2 three cities shalt thou separate to thee in the midst of the Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee in possession,📜💬📚
3 preparing diligently the way: and thou shalt divide the whole province of thy Land equally into three parts: that he which for murder is a fugitive, may have near at hand, wither to escape.📜💬📚
4 This shall be the law of the murderer that flyeth, whose life is to be saved: He that striketh his neighbour unwitting, & that is proved yesterday & the day before to have had no hatred against him,📜💬📚
5 but to have gone with him simply unto the wood to cut wood, and in cutting of wood, the axe slipped out of his hand, & the iron falling from the handle struck his friend, and killed him: he shall fly to one of the cities aforesaid, and live:📜💬📚
6 lest perhaps the next kinsman of him, whose blood was shed, pricked with sorrow, pursue, and apprehend him if the way be too long, and strike his life that is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had no hatred before, against him that was slain.📜💬📚
7 Therefore I command thee, that thou separate three cities of equal distance one from an other.📜💬📚
8 And when our Lord thy God shall have dilated thy borders, as he sware to thy fathers, and shall give thee all the Land that he promised them📜💬📚
9 (yet so, if thou keep his commandments, & do the things which I command thee this day, that thou love our Lord thy God, and walk in his ways at all time) thou shalt add to thee other three cities, and shalt double the number of the three cities aforesaid:📜💬📚
10 that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of the Land, which our Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood.📜💬📚
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