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Deuteronomy 19:10-15 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

10. Thus, in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage, innocent blood will not be shed and you will not become guilty of bloodshed.

11. However, if someone, hating a neighbor, lies in wait, attacks, and strikes the neighbor dead, and then flees to one of these cities,

12. the elders of the killer’s own city shall send and have the killer taken from there, to be handed over to the avenger of blood and slain.

13. Do not show pity, but purge from Israel the innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.

14. You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary markers erected by your forebears in the heritage that will be allotted to you in the land the Lord, your God, is giving you to possess.

15. One witness alone shall not stand against someone in regard to any crime or any offense that may have been committed; a charge shall stand only on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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