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Deuteronomy 19
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| 19:1
When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy
God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and
in their houses; |
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| 19:2
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which
the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. |
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| 19:3
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which
the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer
may flee thither. |
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| 19:4
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may
live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time
past; |
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| 19:5
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his
hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head
slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he
shall flee unto one of those cities, and live: |
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| 19:6
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot,
and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not
worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past. |
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| 19:7
Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for
thee. |
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| 19:8
And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy
fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy
fathers; |
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| 19:9
If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee
this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt
thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three: |
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| 19:10
That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. |
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| 19:11
But if any man hate
his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite
him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities: |
(19:11-13, 18-21)
Murderers and perjurers are to be executed -- "and thine eye shall not pity" them.
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Then the elders of his
city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the
avenger of blood, that he may die.
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| 19:13
Thine eye shall not
pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from
Israel, that it may go well with thee. |
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| 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine
inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God
giveth thee to possess it. |
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| 19:15
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any
sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the
mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established. |
Jehovah's Witnesses use this verse
(along with 1 Tim.5:19, 2 Cor.13:1,
and Mt.18:16)
to justify their refusal to report or investigate incidents of child molestation unless two or three
JWs have witnessed the event. If witnesses do not come forward (and they are
discouraged from doing so since it would embarrass the organization), then the
victim is told to be quiet about it -- or risk being disfellowshipped.
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| 19:16
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
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| 19:17
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the
LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; |
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| 19:18
And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a
false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; |
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| 19:19
Then shall ye do unto
him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put
the evil away from among you. |
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And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit
no more any such evil among you. |
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| 19:21
And thine eye shall
not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot. |
"And thine eye shall not pity. Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth,
hand for hand, foot for foot."
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