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If you keep and do all these orders which I give you today, loving the Lord your God and walking ever in his ways; then let three more towns, in addition to these three, be marked out for you:
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So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.
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But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;
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The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.
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Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.
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Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.
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One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.
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If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,
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Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;
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And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,
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Then do to him what it was his purpose to do to his brother: and so put away the evil from among you.