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Deuteronomy 19:13-21 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

13. Your eye should not pity him, but you must purge the innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

14. “You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker that the first generations marked out, in the inheritance you will receive in the land Adonai your God is giving you to possess.

15. A single witness shall not rise up against a person for any offense or sin that he commits. By the word of two or three witnesses is a case to be established.

16. Suppose a hostile witness rises up against someone to accuse him of wrongdoing.

17. Then both people who have the dispute will stand before Adonai, before the kohanim and judges in charge at that time.

18. The judges are to investigate thoroughly, and if indeed the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother,

19. then you are to do to him just as he had plotted to do to his brother. So you will purge the evil from your midst.

20. Those who remain will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do such an evil thing as this in your midst.

21. Your eye must not show pity—life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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