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lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.
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Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
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If the LORD your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
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if you shall keep all this mitzvah to do it, which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more for you, besides these three:
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that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
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But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;
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then the Zakenim of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
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Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Yisra'el, that it may go well with you.
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You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
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One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
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If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,