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Deuteronomy 19:3-5
English Standard Version Anglicised
Deuteronomy 19:3-5
English Standard Version Anglicised
3 You shall measure the distances[a] and divide into three parts the area of the land that the Lord your God gives you as a possession, so that any manslayer can flee to them.
4 “This is the provision for (A)the manslayer, who by fleeing there may save his life. If anyone kills his neighbour unintentionally without having hated him in the past— 5 as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbour to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbour so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,
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- Deuteronomy 19:3 Hebrew road
Deuteronomy 19:3-5
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Deuteronomy 19:3-5
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3 Determine the distances involved and divide into three parts the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that a person who kills someone may flee for refuge to one of these cities.
4 This is the rule concerning anyone who kills a person and flees there for safety—anyone who kills a neighbor unintentionally, without malice aforethought. 5 For instance, a man may go into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and as he swings his ax to fell a tree, the head may fly off and hit his neighbor and kill him. That man may flee to one of these cities and save his life.
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