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"When the LORD your Godcutsoff the nations, whoseland the LORD your Godgives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,
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"You shall prepare the roads for yourself, and divide into threeparts the territory of your landwhich the LORD your God will give you as a possession, so that anymanslayer may fleethere.
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as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cutwood, and his handswings the axe to cutdown the tree, and the iron head slipsoff the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies -he may flee to one of thesecities and live;
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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.
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"If the LORD your Godenlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the landwhich He promised to give your fathers -
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if you carefullyobserveallthiscommandmentwhich I command you today, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in His waysalways* -then you shall addthreemorecities for yourself, besidesthesethree.
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"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 thesecities,
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"You shall not move your neighbor'sboundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritancewhich you will inherit in the land that the LORD your Godgives you to possess.
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"A singlewitness shall not rise up against a man on account of anyiniquity or anysinwhich he has committed; on the evidence of twoorthreewitnesses a matter shall be confirmed.