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Deuteronomy 19:12-21 Amplified Bible (AMP)

12. Then the elders of his own city shall send for him and fetch him from there and give him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

13. Your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall clear Israel of the guilt of innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

14. You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, which the men of old [the first dividers of the land] set.

15. One witness shall not prevail against a man for any crime or any wrong in connection with any sin he commits; only on the testimony of two or three witnesses shall a charge be established.

16. If a false witness rises up against any man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

17. Then both parties to the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days.

18. The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely,

19. Then you shall do to him as he had intended to do to his brother. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

20. And those who remain shall hear and [reverently] fear, and shall henceforth commit no such evil among you.

21. Your eyes shall not pity: it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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