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or with any stone wherewith he dieth, without seeing, and causeth [it] to fall upon him, and he dieth, and he [is] not his enemy, nor seeking his evil;
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then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments.
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`And the company have delivered the man-slayer out of the hand of the redeemer of blood, and the company have caused him to turn back unto the city of his refuge, whither he hath fled, and he hath dwelt in it till the death of the chief priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil.
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`And if the man-slayer at all go out [from] the border of the city of his refuge whither he fleeth,
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and the redeemer of blood hath found him at the outside of the border of the city of his refuge, and the redeemer of blood hath slain the man-slayer, blood is not for him;
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for in the city of his refuge he doth dwell till the death of the chief priest; and after the death of the chief priest doth the man-slayer turn back unto the city of his possession.
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`And these things have been to you for a statute of judgment to your generations, in all your dwellings:
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whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth [one] slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person -- to die.
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`And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who [is] condemned -- to die, for he is certainly put to death;
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and ye take no atonement for him to flee unto the city of his refuge, to turn back to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
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`And ye profane not the land which ye [are] in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;