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Deuteronomy 19:10-21 King James 2000 (KJ2000)

10. That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you.

11. But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and wounds him mortally that he dies, and flees into one of these cities:

12. Then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

13. Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

14. You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men 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.

15. 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 the matter be established.

16. If a false witness rises up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

17. Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, who shall be in those days;

18. And the judges shall make diligent inquiry: and, behold, if the witness is a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother;

19. Then shall you do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shall you put the evil away from among you.

20. And those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall hereafter commit no more any such evil among you.

21. And your eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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